The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack ObamaA person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark TwainSuccess in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Stephen HawkingWithout tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston ChurchillCutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
Barack ObamaWhenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.
George LucasTo innovate is not to reform.
Edmund BurkeIf you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
Elon MuskI think every age lives in a blend of technology so there’s always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
Margaret AtwoodI don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.
Kanye WestThe technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
George LucasI’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
Elon MuskI know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
Bill GatesIdeas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
John C. MaxwellI pay attention to politics and technology.
Nipsey HussleI’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
Bill GatesI’m not no Internet person.
Kevin GatesEverybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.
DJ KhaledI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen HawkingI think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.
Elon MuskIn California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
Kamala HarrisThe 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 JobsEverybody is entertained to death.
Brian EnoWe are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Bill GatesToday, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.
Elon MuskIf you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!
Richard P. FeynmanI suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David BowieSilicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Elon MuskDOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.
Bill GatesThere are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
Nelson MandelaGenius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.
Mark ZuckerbergYou’ll see more and more perfection of that – computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve JobsI like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.
Elon MuskTaking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.
Richard BransonThere’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
David BowieGood ideas are free – or at least they should be.
Matthew McConaugheyI think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.
Jeff BezosI’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 JobsI 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 GatesWhen Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George CarlinThe biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark ZuckerbergI can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.
Frank OceanFacebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
Mark ZuckerbergIf you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
Brian EnoDigital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
George LucasThe tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
Bill GatesIf you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
Bill GatesFirst, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
Barack ObamaThe 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 ZuckerbergOn my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill GatesThe Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
Frank OceanI mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.
Mark ZuckerbergBecause, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Jeff BezosI love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
Richard BransonE-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
Narendra ModiAmerica’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
Joe BidenDigital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Bill GatesThe 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 Bowie