Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening. — Stanley Donwood Copy Share Image
It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button. — John Brunner Copy Share Image
The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems. — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. — Michael K. Powell Copy Share Image
All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nowadays people spend more time cleaning the touchscreen of their cellphone than they spend cleaning their genitals. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“The hallmark of innovation is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that internet technologies are making everything so transparent. The arms race of deception and spin against the public trying to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
