Bill Laswell Quotes

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

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

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

The innovations are far more important because the technology itself has now way to impact the world for good until it's embedded in the business model. Innovation it's the combination of the simplifying technology and the business model.

A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

The IT organization can't drive or lead a digital transformation. It has to come from the business and the business strategy, because they're fundamental to how a company or an organization evolves.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.

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

Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.