Evan Williams Quotes

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

There's always a better way to do something.

I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.