Walt Mossberg Quotes

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.

Tech is all about building human connections.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit. Now it's really easy to communicate with a large group of people in a really short time, and that... opens a lot of possibilities. You can do a lot of things with it that you couldn't do before. It's kind of fun to figure out how that can be employed.

Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

I look forward to trying the Internet.

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

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

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

The way communication works is changing.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

If it works, it's obsolete.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

You either innovate or you become defunct.

High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.

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.

And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.