“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”
Technology giveth and technology taketh away. These quotes explore innovation, digital life, artificial intelligence, social media, and the question that gets louder every year: just because we can build it, should we?
“You affect the world by what you browse.”
“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”
“Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.”
“I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.”
“I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.”
“Technology favors horrible people.”
“We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.”
“An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.”
“Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.”
“We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.”
“You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.”
“Technology is not neutral.”
“In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.”
“Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.”
“The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.”
“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”