Technology Quotes

Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Hell is other browsers.

There is almost certainly an evolutionary drive toward increasing complexity in the face of entropy. That’s practically a definition of life. Technology is so powerful and attractive to us because it holds the promise of greater complexity and greater connectedness. Atoms to molecules to cells to organelles to organisms. What’s next? No one knows for sure, but it sure ain’t Facebook.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

God is real, unless declared integer.

Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

You cannot install a social networking tool and assume that a network will grow around it. You must either have another purpose, or an existing network of people to plug into it. Either way, it’s also going to take a lot of work: you need to lead by example, and participate heavily every day.

If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product. Ideally, the system should be useful for user number one.

...websites that foster social networks are simply social networking tools. A social network doesn’t live on the Web, but a website can help its members communicate and share with each other.

Mr Watson—come here—I want to see you.

The author is changing. The author is expected now to be engaged with social media, to find their audience online right away. But there are lots of fantastic writers who don't want to play the social media game, and I think that publishers need to be there to help them.

One of the things that is really important is the internet. Publishers are finding the internet really useful for finding readers, and their communities are growing really quickly.

Nobody has found a way around replacing the book. People just love the book.

So far, for writers and publishers, the notion of an ebook is something that you sort of surrender to.

Our app has been a great way of reaching people in rural places where our physical products have trouble reaching. It's scratching the surface of what's possible. Our dear friend Russell Quinn who worked hard on that app and I think he will continue to do better and better things.

20,000 word pieces can be good pieces - it sounds like a good thing to the extent that there's not much of a home for works of that length.... I'm sure some of them will do well, but will it change literature? I hope not.

We make the books the way we make the books because it's fun that way. We want to make an object people will hold on to and honour and cherish. Let's think about it as a book: What does it need to do, what can it do?