Paul Buchheit Quotes

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

Messaging is such an integral part of our lives, and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to.

Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn't know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.