Top 100 Tech Quotes
#1. Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.
Niklas Zennstrom
#2. Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first ... at least 100 employees and often many more.
Sam Altman
#3. Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.
Ryan Holmes
#4. I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
Willie Nelson
#5. Free stopped so suddenly, Ruxs had to dodge him to avoid running into his back. Tech turned to look at his friend, wondering about the haunted look in his face. "Who's that in there?" he whispered harshly, his voice sounding strained as if he had to struggle to say the words. Tech
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#6. I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
Andrew Weil
#8. St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.
Jim McKelvey
#9. I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.
Aaron Tippin
#10. I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'
Mark Zuckerberg
#11. I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
Justine Bateman
#12. I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him.
David Duchovny
#13. African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be given the same respect. As long as we are treated as valuable partners, we can succeed.
Rebecca Enonchong
#14. In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
Charles Leadbeater
#15. There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.
Jon Oringer
#16. Syn bio tech had come on stream, springing full-grown from the bench like the Incredible Hulk bursting his lab coat, a great green monster that sucked carbon dioxide from the air and sprouted wood, pissed oil, and shat diamonds.
Ken MacLeod
#17. I lot of the show's I do are low tech. This is low tech. There's a bit of high adventure here. There's difficult emotional choices. So actually this feels like a natural progression of everything I've been doing before this.
Glen Mazzara
#18. I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.
Jeff Bridges
#19. I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
Felicia Day
#20. The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
David Hockney
#21. I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.
Marc Andreessen
#22. I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks.
Rush Limbaugh
#23. Tech-savvy types had figured out how to get around the system. With radios it was easy - open up the set, cut the conveyor belt attached to the dial, and replace it with a rubber band that could turn the dial wherever you liked. Television required a little more expertise.
Barbara Demick
#24. If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#25. Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Aaron Levie
#26. One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#27. I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
Yves Behar
#28. When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.
Randy Alcorn
#29. I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.
Chris Kluwe
#30. I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.
David Duffield
#31. Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
Aaron Levie
#32. So I now see upgrading as a type of hygiene: You do it regularly to keep your tech healthy.
Kevin Kelly
#33. You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.
Robert Scoble
#34. Despite Marc Andreessen's and Peter Thiel's belief that the outsize gains of tech billionaires are the result of a genius entrepreneur culture, inequality at this scale is a choice - the result of the laws and taxes that we as a society choose to establish.
Jonathan Taplin
#35. Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.
Roger Wicker
#36. We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.
Megan Smith
#37. There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.
Mikal Cronin
#38. I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.
Daymond John
#39. Tech companies tend to do tech best.
Sam Altman
#40. Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.
Nicolas Cage
#41. The sight of Ethan - of Scam, since this was a mission - sent a trickle of annoyance down Crash's spine. Not like all the little itches of tech, just the ever-present need to punch him in the face.
Scott Westerfeld
#42. India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies ... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.
Sundar Pichai
#43. Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.
Michelle Alexander
#44. Tech could be so sweetly oblivious sometimes. He loved his team so much he couldn't even tell that the guys were fucking with Steele by trying to cock block him. They all knew how much he wanted Tech. Like hell, he was letting this happen. Tech's
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#45. Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
Jack Dangermond
#46. With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo.
Tony Fadell
#47. A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.
Kevin Mitnick
#48. For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.
Emmett Tyrrell
#49. Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.
Steven Pressfield
#50. My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
Peter Lynch
#51. In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.
Charles R. Swindoll
#52. A company that insures cellphones and other tech devices is expected to announce plans to open a service call center in Las Vegas that would provide up to 800 jobs within five years.
Anonymous
#53. Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.
Bill Hader
#54. My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.
Timothy O'Donnell
#55. I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
Linus Torvalds
#56. The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.
Yossi Vardi
#57. While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
Kenneth G. Wilson
#58. I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
James Daly
#59. Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.
Andy Lally
#60. I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
Rachel Dratch
#61. It's easy to lose the humanity when you start showcasing tech.
Chris Milk
#62. While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.
Clarence Thomas
#63. As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech - will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?
Klaus Schwab
#64. Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
Jacque Fresco
#65. When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
Marilyn Manson
#66. Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.
Markus Persson
#67. There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
Tom Clancy
#68. Great tech opportunities happen only once.
Peter Thiel
#69. To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.
James Pearse Connelly
#70. I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
Sheryl Sandberg
#71. Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.
Jack Weatherford
#73. Millennials' tech and global savvy will make them instrumental in shaping our mobile future worldwide.
Brad D. Smith
#74. In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
Peter Diamandis
#75. So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
Thomas Dolby
#76. But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!
Dinesh D'Souza
#77. This explosion of athletic wear and rompers is very ironic when you think about how much more sedentary we've become. As we've become less active and higher-tech, we're wearing more and more workout clothes.
Tim Gunn
#78. My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
Peter Capaldi
#79. I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#80. I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
Steve Wozniak
#81. As the old-school approach of command-and-control leadership fades, companies in all industries will inevitably move in the same direction as these tech firms, and try to tap into the deeper passions of employees.
Adam Bryant
#82. Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.
Kara Swisher
#83. We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
Astro Teller
#84. I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
John Lasseter
#86. I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller
#87. Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.
Mitch Kapor
#88. Secretary of Defense once said, "You go to the zombie apocalypse with the tech you have not the tech you want." Of course Donald Rumsfeld didn't say exactly that, but the meaning is similar.
Perry Kivolowitz
#89. There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important if other parts of the country are going to want to create these tech centers.
Juan Enriquez
#90. When you come to a place like Kauai, you don't go for a high tech world.
Todd Rundgren
#91. When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.
Daniel Suarez
#92. When some tech or design issues comes up, it annoys me but I recognize that tech and design are part of being a professional writer, so I embrace the suck for the greater good.
Mike Cernovich
#93. A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.
Marsha Blackburn
#94. Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.
Clara Shih
#95. The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
Andrea Jung
#96. The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.
Daymond John
#97. Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how.
Jon Oringer
#98. We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
Vinod Khosla
#99. Kenya's M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.
Bill Gates
#100. Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech,
Marissa Mayer
