Amy Heckerling Quotes

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics.

When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.

Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.