Technology Issues Quotes

Our problems are technical, not political

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Believe it or not, joining a video conference call from home doesn't always have to make you feel like an idiot.

I interviewed most of the presidential candidates about their positions on technology issues in the 2008 election. After those interviews I endorsed one candidate from each party - Barack Obama and John McCain. Neither of them were leading the primaries at the time, but they seemed like the best candidates, solely from a tech policy perspective.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons have gotten out of the box.

You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

Most of our technology issues aren't partisan.

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.

There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.

I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.