Tech Governance Quotes

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have no technologists, even though technology is such a big part of our lives. It's just amazing, because even these big Silicon Valley companies, the masters of the universe or whatever, haven't engaged with Washington until recently. They're still playing catch-up.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

Companies like YouTube will continue to be tested on their commitment to the mission that made them such popular and profitable websites - providing an open platform to a wide range of ideas from around the world.