Technology Quotes

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.