Trip Hawkins Quotes

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper. They doubled in capability every 18 months under Moore's law.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

The future of Pakistan is connected to IT, and we can move forward by utilising modern knowledge.

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.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy.

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.