Chris Milk Quotes

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

I'm not anti-technology at all, really.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

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.

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.