Robert Smith Quotes

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

People get comfortable with technologies.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.

Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

When I joined 'WhatsApp,' I was 38 years old. Opportunity is available to us in all walks of life and at all ages.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.