Patrick Collison Quotes

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Technology can change the world and improve our lifestyles.

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

The most important resource of counties of the future will be the number of math trained brains.

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

Most of my work may happen at a computer, but it's still a new and very exciting frontier.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.