Steven Levy Quotes

Mobile devices such as Android and the iPhone achieve their battery life largely because they can aggressively and quickly enter into and exit from sleep states. GPS prevents this.

When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content.

I'm using more energy than ever.

The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

Equity and energy can grow concurrently only to a point. Below a threshold of per capita wattage, motors improve the conditions for social progress. Above this threshold, energy grows at the expense of equity.

I had a very clear vision. If Indians start consuming power like the Americans, the world will run out of resources. Either you stop India from developing, or you find some alternate solution.

Performance matters because games are built on great performance, but form factor and energy efficiency matter incredibly because they want to build something that's portable and transformable.

One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.

It is important to take into account the total power cost borne by consumers after taking into account what they spend on inverters and gensets.

All devices should just sip power and be charged like a calculator is, with a small solar cell. No power adaptors. It's easy to put a solar cell into a device, but it's not powerful enough to drive today's cell phones or laptops. They need too much power to run.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

I am the expert on battery life.

There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.

I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.

While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem.

No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.