Pranav Mistry Quotes

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

I think that integrating information to everyday objects will not only help us to get rid of the digital divide, the gap between these two worlds, but will also help us, in some way, to stay human, to be more connected to our physical world.

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

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.

We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

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

We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control.

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

It's no longer possible to think of the physical and digital as two different worlds.

Our smartphones can offer innovative opportunities for improving how we react to our environment, and I believe it is increasingly becoming an asset - not a hindrance - to maintaining a healthier relationship with our work, our friends, and the world around us.

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

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.

The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.

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'm a big user of digital technology, but I don't find it beautiful.

Silicon Valley needs partners. You can't do edited manufacturing just in the Valley. Why not have the DNA of manufacturing but combine it with the digital world?

I'd like to realize services that people naturally think should be available and create a society where they can feel the convenience of digitalization.