John Phillips Quotes

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

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

Finding a better way is all I do.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

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

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

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

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of people forget that anything is accomplishable if you embrace technology.

There's always a better way to do something.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.