Joe Gebbia Quotes

Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other people's smart products for the home.

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

I live in quite a smart home. I built it from scratch, so I thought of everything… a lot of my doors are automatic; the whole house is voice-activated.

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.

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

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

I have like fifteen televisions in my house.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Technology makes the world a new place.