David Copperfield Quotes

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.

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

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

Patents should be for technological innovations. So a program for a new machine tool should be patentable but a non-technological innovation, such as grammar-checking software for a word-processor, should not be.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.

Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.