Charles Platt Quotes

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.

I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big.

In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

There's plenty of room at the bottom.

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

Science is the engine of prosperity. All the prosperity we see around us is a byproduct of scientific inventions. And that's not being made clear to young people. If we can't make it clear to young people they're not going to go into science. And science will suffer in the United States.

This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.