Context Awareness Quotes

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

It's important to match your style with the occasion.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

I like to take walks and getting out and seeing things. These experiences are so irreplaceable and give you a whole different perspective on the greater context that you're in. If I didn't try to take advantage of that, I'd be missing out on a lot of really interesting things.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Don't ask super goofy questions at the premiere of a very serious movie or try to have an in-depth political discussion at the opening of a new fashion boutique.

You have to make that stand out from the rest of the three hours. There are times when I'm having fun and being loose, and there are times when I'm ultra serious - calling the Giants/Patriots in the Super Bowl is a lot different than calling the Giants/Cubs game last Saturday. There are different levels of intensity, and I try to respect that when I'm doing it.

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

You just had to know where to look.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.

I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.

The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.

I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.

Not every time you open Messenger do you want an Uber, but when you do want an Uber, it appears. That is the goal.

People look at football, they don't look at what is going on around the life.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.