“Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.” IfsGivingMadeFilmTechnologyFourTreeCamerasVideoGrainLeafsVideo Cameras Author:Jonas Mekas
“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.” ThinkingStuffInterestingCompanyTechnologyFiveFourSeeingNew YorkSouthPocketsChicagoValleysBostonSeattleSiliconSilicon ValleyGetting Started Author:Eric Lefkofsky
“In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only settled on almost every habitable speck of land on the planet, they developed technology that allowed them to go to the moon and beyond.” YearsTechnologyFourLandPlanetsMoonCrowdsEightLengthReplacementsSpecksNeanderthals Author:Svante Paabo
“The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.” IfsWantSongHumanityEasyTechnologyRecordsToo MuchFourHundredToolsPerformancesGuitarTrackProductionsRebelMentalitySpontaneitySpoiledOverthinking Author:Jack White
“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.” MenFirstsBitsTechnologyPiecesFourRocksCenturyBalanceTwentiesTablesCaughtLegsWelcomeRestaurantsDevicesBack And ForthNineteenth CenturyOne Piece Author:Leonard Susskind
“I'm a bit obsessive. I've just bought this Wi-Fi radio, which can pick up 7,500 stations from all over the world. I'm boring my wife to death with it. I've got a thing about technology, so I've got four sat-nav systems and loads of gadgets, including a 100% accurate watch. Any new development and I'm there buying it. My best trait is that I'm happy and optimistic.” WorldBitsWatchesTechnologyFourWifeDevelopmentPicksIncludingRadioBoringMy WifeOptimisticSatBuyingStationsTraitsAccurateLoadObsessiveGadgets Author:Tony Blackburn
“Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.” RunningGoalTechnologyFourCuttingStageDrugApproachHighestSolutionsIdealsDetermineComplexityApplicationSophisticatedPredictable Author:Bill Gates