“Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.”
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?
“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.”
“Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.”
“I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.”
“Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.”
“If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.”
“The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.”
“There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.”
“I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.”
“Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.”
“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.”
“Technology is not neutral.”
“Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.”
“We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.”
“To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.”
“Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.”
“Technology has to be invented or adopted.”