William Gibson Quotes

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

All these remarkable new technologies are starting to make people very uncomfortable with the whole process of science.

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

The United States historicaly has had its military more closely connected with new technology than any other coutnry.

I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.

Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.

The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.

In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and other things we haven't even thought of yet. And those new powers will unlock wonderful opportunities, but they might also bring with them certain risks. And we have no track record of surviving those risks. So if there are big existential risks, I think they are going to come from our own activities and mostly from our own inventiveness and creativity.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

With the rise of new technologies, media, and other cultural apparatuses as powerful forms of public pedagogy, students need to understand and address how these pedagogical cultural apparatuses work to diffuse learning from any vestige of critical thought. This is a form of public pedagogy that needs to be addressed both for how it deforms and for how it can create important new spaces for emancipatory forms of pedagogy.

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.