Stewart Butterfield Quotes

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

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.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

When you start over and jump into new tech, you don't know what the negatives are going to be until you go through a few cycles. We're always changing our tech, but we don't wholly destroy it with each game. We're taking parts out.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

Why fight technology at all? The audience is always going to tell you what they like best. And you, as a storyteller, as a communicator, are going to be required to adjust to that.

The IT organization can't drive or lead a digital transformation. It has to come from the business and the business strategy, because they're fundamental to how a company or an organization evolves.

There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business - is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.