Evan Spiegel Quotes

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it's leading to happen.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.

My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won't change over the next 300 years. If you don't stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn't going to do you any good.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack the code of technology and bring forth a future techno utopia.

I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.

The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.