Ian Jackson Quotes

Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

Though the first iPhone was expensive, it was such a refreshing new product that early users flocked to it.

We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.

A seductive technology that works like a dream and improves lives will set off a consumer clamor, whether the new tool is an iPhone 4S or an implantable blood-sugar meter.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

I think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

The Web is the new book though, innit?

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave fresh compost behind them; no one would be hungry; no one would be ill; all buildings would be earthquake-, bomb-, and flood-proof; and the world's entire economy would have collapsed and been replaced by one based on the value of chocolate.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.