Quotes by Technologists

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.
Ramez Naam
The world which worships Mother Mary and goddess Durga also has experienced such heinous crimes against her daughters.
Debajani Mohanty
Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.
Bill Loguidice
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda
Greed is like a dark side of every man, and you could not see it from the appearance of a man, but in the inside the greedy beast already dominating you.
Steven Eric Chen
Too many stories. Not enough Tim.
Timothy Trimble
For good or for bad, we define ourselves in many ways by the gadgets we use and the clothes we wear. We don't want to surround ourselves with cheap products. Nobody really aspires to that. We also don't want to pay for a diamond-encrusted ereader. We don't need bling; we just need to feel like the design speaks to us.
Jason Merkoski
As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")
Bill Loguidice Matt Barton
By shaping the menus we pick from, technology hijacks the way we perceive our choices and replaces them with new ones. But the closer we pay attention to the options we’re given, the more we’ll notice when they don’t actually align with our true needs.
Tristan Harris
How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?
John C. Havens
Don't think, just feel it. I know you do; I can see it on your face.
Megan Smith
Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.
Clyde DeSouza
A man's worth can be judged through those who dislike him.
Bill Loguidice
Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.
Clyde DeSouza
It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.
Clyde DeSouza
I feel like a china cup that broke and was put back together wrong.
William Hertling
Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.
William Hertling
You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters
Clyde DeSouza
I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.
Bill Loguidice
Life is like a roller coaster. Ups and downs are just part of the ride.
Bill Loguidice
Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.
Clyde DeSouza
Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.
Clyde DeSouza
I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life.
Clyde DeSouza
Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.
Clyde DeSouza
In order to protect the honour of her motherland, she had betrayed the trust of her mother.
Debajani Mohanty
You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.
Clyde DeSouza
Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.
Clyde DeSouza
No... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.
Clyde DeSouza
Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.
Clyde DeSouza
The Loguidice Fitness Equation: Eating Right + Knowing How to Workout + Consistency = Success
Bill Loguidice
But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
Ramez Naam
Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't.
Ramez Naam
What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?
Clyde DeSouza
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
Bill Loguidice
The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...
Ramez Naam
Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.
Ramez Naam