I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
Dalai LamaMicrosoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
Bill GatesFor the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
Mark ZuckerbergStudy hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che GuevaraThe absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
David BowieThe Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
Frank OceanYou can’t really imagine music without technology.
Brian EnoInnovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
Steve JobsI am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.
Stephen HawkingThe internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. RowlingThe release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert EinsteinWhen you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
J. Robert OppenheimerI’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
Bill GatesTechnology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan WattsI’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.
Steve JobsThere is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!
Richard P. FeynmanThe truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
Bill GatesI know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
Matthew McConaugheyI hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John SteinbeckFacebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.
BonoI just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Mark ZuckerbergThis revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve JobsI don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‚over the Internet.‘
Douglas AdamsPeople use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
Margaret AtwoodWe must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
Narendra ModiWhen I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.
Ray BradburyThe X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon MuskWe are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill GatesIt’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘
Bill GatesI love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
Richard BransonThese technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.
Steve JobsThe over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
Steve JobsOur goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.
Mark ZuckerbergI got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.
Mark ZuckerbergI think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
Bill GatesThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroPublishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
Paulo CoelhoPart of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.
Steve JobsHealth is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.
Mark ZuckerbergIf we’re trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can’t write every line of code. I can’t write any lines of code.
Mark ZuckerbergCertainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
Bill GatesBut there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.
Jeff BezosWhen I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.
Jimmy CarterIt’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
Bill GatesI know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
Bill GatesReally advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
Bill GatesThere is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen HawkingApple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘
Steve JobsWe believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. KennedyThe technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
George LucasThe biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
Mark ZuckerbergI get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.
Steve JobsThere is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
Mark ZuckerbergThe Internet is a toilet. It is.
Lady GagaPeople are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
Bill GatesEach year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
Steve JobsIt seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Nikola TeslaThere are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
Noam ChomskyI think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms.
Mark ZuckerbergElectronic books are junk.
Ray Bradbury