We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.
Elon MuskSince thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin FranklinEventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Bill GatesShort cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TolkienTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous HuxleyWe are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Bill GatesIf you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
Elon MuskI’m not no Internet person.
Kevin GatesThe thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.
Mark ZuckerbergPeople everywhere love Windows.
Bill GatesApple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.
Bad BunnyThe humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.
David BowieWhat we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.
Steve JobsI’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
Elon MuskThe intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Bill GatesCalifornia is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.
Kamala HarrisThe march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas SowellI am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
George LucasA correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.
Mark ZuckerbergThe Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill GatesEmploy thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin FranklinWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganPart 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 JobsFacebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.
Mark ZuckerbergOne thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘
Bill GatesIf Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.
Joel OsteenI’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian EnoThe world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel JohnsonWe 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. KennedyI 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 ZuckerbergI’m a geek.
Bill GatesI’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.
Brian EnoOf all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
Steve JobsMy opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.
Elon MuskThere is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin DisraeliLiterature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. LewisIn ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
Clint EastwoodWhy don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
Steven WrightI think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
Elon MuskMake measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim RohnThe multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
Jordan PetersonI know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
Bill GatesAs everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.
David ByrneDesign 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.
Steve JobsWandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.
Douglas AdamsMy books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainPart of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac AsimovThe civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
Brian EnoWe should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
Narendra ModiI come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.
Anthony HopkinsStand a little less between me and the sun.
DiogenesWhen I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.
Brian EnoFacebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.
Elon MuskIf anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
Elon MuskWhen I say ‚Crush your enemy‘, I don’t literally mean it.
Robert GreeneNature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWork is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell