I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.
Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.
I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.
Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
Sex times technology equals the future.
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.
The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly
Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?
Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.
We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.
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