Tod Machover Quotes

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs, and many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.

We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.

There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime.

Let's face it, the U.S. government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its policies that affect the use of technology.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

New iPod. It looks like an iPhone but it can't make phone calls. So its really just an iPhone.