Frank Abagnale Quotes

Technology just means information technology.

Most of us have embraced digital technology, and depend on it more and more in our daily lives, both at home and at work.

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

Computing is becoming universal.

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

The workers and professionals of the world will soon be divided into two distinct groups. Those who will control computers and those who will be controlled by computers. It would be best for you to be in the former group.

Massive increases in productivity due to the happy marriage if information technology and advanced manufacturing techniques are having a chilling, unprecedented effect on job creations.

Modern civilization is highly computerrorized.

The central political problem of our time is how to adapt our venerable democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We need better policies to obtain the benefits of innovation as quickly as possible and to manage the social problems that speedier innovation will inevitably create—from pollution to weapons of mass destruction.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.

IT for a long time has been about how do you make old processes more efficient. But with all of the progress in digital technology, there is a kind of digital transformation that is occurring. And you see it with the explosion in the number of devices; you see it in the explosion in the number of applications.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I'm worried that too many people are listening.