Thomas Middleditch Quotes

Being Uber means being efficient.

This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.

There's a misconception that Lyft is just a better version of the taxi. You know, I think that's just scratching the surface of what we're doing.

For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

Email is the greatest thing.

We can go into no mechanic shop, into no manufactory of any description, upon no farm or plantation, or travel a mile on our railroads or in our steamboats, without seeing evidence of our originality and witnessing the fruits of our ingenuity and enterprise.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

The railway, the steamship, and there telegraph are rapidly mobilizing the people of the earth. The nations are coming our of their isolation, and distances which separated the different races are rapidly giving way before the extension of communication.

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business.

The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this.

Even before you get to self-driving vehicles, there's just a huge amount of positive things that happen to cities when you do ridesharing.

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.

In the future, we'll be working and relaxing in cars.

We are very excited about launching Ola in Australia and see immense potential for the ride-sharing ecosystem in a country which embraces new technology and innovation.

Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.

At Hyperloop One, we're committed to enabling disruption, and we recognize the importance of partnership in being able to realize the full potential of developing robust ecosystems that are needed to support Hyperloop's capacity.

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.