Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

I'm for innovation and a commitment to a rising tide that lifts all boats for all Americans.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

Every great invention takes a livelihood away from 50,000 men--& within ten years creates a livelihood for half a million.

… real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing - something that requires innovation.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Other countries are developing well-being economies - we should do the same. That is the way to create a society which would stand the test of time - for everyone.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.