“I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.”
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?
“I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.”
“I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.”
“Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.”
“I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.”
“For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
“What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.”
“There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.”
“It's not that we use technology, we live technology.”
“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.”
“I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.”
“Some people think technology has the answers.”
“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.”
“We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.”
“If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.”