Reed Hastings Quotes

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

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.

Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

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

All too often, technology is treated as a silver bullet for perceived problems in education. This sometimes leads to knee-jerk investments, using scarce resources to invest in software or hardware without a clear notion of how either might actually empower learning.

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

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.

If you don't integrate the technology in a way that's actually fun, the kids don't stay with the play pattern.

My daughter can work on an iPhone and iPad like crazy. That's their world. If you can use that, use it educationally. They can learn while they're having so much fun. They don't even realize they're learning.

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

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

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

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

Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.