Richard Branson Quotes

One day offices will be a thing of the past

Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.

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.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.

Technology will have moved on to an unimaginable level in ten years.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

Technology is going to play an increasingly, increasingly, increasingly important role in every industry. And it's good.

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

In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three parts. One is the office. That's the one I'm most excited about and is the most concrete.