Tony Fadell Quotes

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Some people think technology has the answers.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Something else has happened with computers.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.