We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It’s time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
The only thing that I’d rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Defect-free software does not exist.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.
The great thing that guys like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it’s art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
What’s sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
Technology is best when it brings people together.
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
