3,132 Quotes About Technology

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Think of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words—not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another!

Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted.

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

Who was Steve Jobs, anyway? An adopted half-Arab on acid, really. Everything you need to know is right there. Close enough to Jesus to confuse some into thinking he might’ve been the second coming, but far enough, when you know the facts, like Ray does, to reveal himself for what he really was: the Antichrist.

Most improved things can be improved.

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. It's not about ideas, it's about making ideas happen. The mission of innovation is to lead to progress and implemented better ways.

It's not about adopting technology for the sake of adopting it. Technology is only one of the stepping stones to achieve the desired outcomes by businesses and revamp traditional organisations to compete in the digital age. Technological innovation is only a supporting element to realising value and goals.

Innovation must be value-driven. New ideas can be gone by a sneer or yawn and the customer-driven concept has failed to produce the desired results because asking the customers what they want is not innovation. We need to understand the customers’ needs and take an outcome-focused approach.