Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

Originality is really important.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I 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.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

I play a nobody in Japan.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

Computers make me totally blank out.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Microsoft 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.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.