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"281 Technology Quotes

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Also Camera Dedicated Digital
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Make Mediocre Other People
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Because Behalf Customers Experiment
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People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

Because Cool Mars People
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I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.
Computer Good Know Me
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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Communicate Connect Efficiently Facebook
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Believe Built Connected Everyone
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Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

Heard Internet Million Networks
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I 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.

Actually Boring Computers Facebook
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The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Approach Basis Build Music
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At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Build Capacity Connect Doing
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

App Around Awesome Facebook
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Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
Closer Desktop Lot Mobile
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For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Advantage Allowing Application Because
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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Able Communicate Day Even
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Advance Based Life Everyday
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Applied Automation Business Efficiency
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Basic Close Dream Finishing
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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Ability Collaborate Ideas Customers
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Communication Computers Created Creativity
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Global Internet Square Tomorrow
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Interwoven Business Information Talk
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Choices Fill Return Homework
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Fairness Greed Innovation Microsoft
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Apple Competitors Fantastic Free
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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Application Bureaucrat Draw Line
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Doing End Ghosts Having
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

Astronaut Back Confidence Every
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Machine Me Options Sophistication
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Backwards Efficient Means Merely
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Africa Any Difference Ideas
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Becomes Everything Face Little
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Advances Between Connection Develop
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Built Civilization Extent Impossible
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Despite Gains Innovation Markets
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I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

Actually Car Electric Fully
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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Battery Cell Cells Challenge
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Business Business People Engineers People
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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
BMW Bringing Car Cool
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Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Active Car Extension Natural
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Case Code Difficult DNA
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Africa Because Born Brought
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Big Billion Design Efficiency
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Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.

Age Beats Created Digital
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I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

Being Best Car Driven
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I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!

Box Buy Electronics Lot
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Extraordinary Fifty Machine Man
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
Go I Can Over Skype
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I just think the Internet has made us ruder.
Internet Just Made Think
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Big Doing Filter Form
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