All Quotes in Tech

Innovation is powered by ideas, and some of the world’s biggest breakthroughs began with bold statements. This page showcases quotes from inventors, technologists, researchers, and entrepreneurs whose words anticipated the future, challenged the present, or reshaped how the world uses technology. Explore how ideas in tech were sparked by powerful language.

Select a quote below to see how it inspired technological change.

Eric Schmidt, 2010

August 04, 2010 – Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003

Bill Gates, 2005

January 06, 2005 – The future of computing lies in the seamless integration of devices.

Matt Mullenweg

January 07, 2025 – Technology is best when it brings people together.

Mark Zuckerberg, 2019

January 08, 2019 – My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society — the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties.

Steve Jobs, 2005

June 12, 2005 – Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

HAL 9000, 1968

January 12, 1992 – I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992.

Bill Gates, 2000

January 13, 2000 – Bill Gates said Steve’s promotion would let him focus on his passion for building software and shaping Microsoft’s future.

Alan Kay, 1971

January 15, 1971 – The best way to predict the future is to invent it

Werner von Siemens, 1886

January 16, 1886 – Technology has been given the means at present to generate electric power of unlimited strength inexpensively and easily wherever labor is available. The fact will be of essential importance in several areas of technology.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

January 17, 1961 – We must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

Jimmy Wales

January 18 — Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge

Tim Berners-Lee

January 19 – The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people

Barack Obama, 2015

January 20, 2015 – I intend to protect a free and open Internet, extend its reach to every classroom and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.

Larry Page

January 21 – Always deliver more than expected

Alan Kay, 1971

January 22, 1971 – The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Tim Berners-Lee

January 23 – The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people

Steve Jobs, 1984

January 24, 1984 – Hello, I’m Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag.

Steve Jobs, 2010

January 27, 2010 – iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.

Bill Gates, 2015

January 28, 2015 – I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some

Tim Berners-Lee

January 30 — No one should have to ask permission to create on the web

Linus Torvalds, 1999

January 31, 2024 – Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don’t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. You have a product that’s killing people.

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