Jason Calacanis Quotes

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.

Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.

Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.

The cost of deploying one U. S. soldier is the equivalent to the cost of deploying 70 Afghan soldiers.

As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.

There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.

I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.

Even during negotiation with HAL, Dassault felt that the cost with which the HAL will produce will be far higher than the aircraft produced in France. That was the reality.

While Hollywood's computer graphics quality is world-class, their production pipelines are a mess of non-standard tools and labor-intensive processes driven by the mantra of maximizing quality regardless of cost. It's very Balkanized.

I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?

I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.

If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

What makes the BJP or its government of Modi a brand for the elections - it is some content that makes the brand. Hollowness cannot create a brand, chest-thumping can't create a brand. Ultimately, the quality of the product creates a brand.

It's about time we stopped asking what the computer can do for us and instead ask ourselves what we can do for the computer.

I'm not Borg Two, I'm Wilander One.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper.

I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.