Technology Quotes

"I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books."

"You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids."

"During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur."

"For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest."

"I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it."

"I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film."

"Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies."

"My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed."

"We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve."

"The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones."

"There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media."

"The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'"

"Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer."

"Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space."

"Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you."

"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."

"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."

"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

"I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes."

"I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain."