Hilary Mason Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

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.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

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

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

All the industries we deal with have a fundamental obligation to provide technology to education.

Americans tend to believe that every problem has some technical solution.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

Technology can relieve the symptoms of the problem without affecting the underlying causes. Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem