“Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.” PeopleWorldJobsMillionsTechnologyEasierToolsIncredibles Author:Al Franken
“Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s were a time when some people were desperate to leave their lives. They felt trapped in their marriages or their jobs, and they were seeking freedom. And one of the ways to do that, because technology wasn't advanced as it is today, was just to take over somebody's name.” PeopleWayTodayJobsNamesFeltTechnologySeekingDesperateTrappedAliases Author:Geoffrey Gray
“We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.” WantJobsTechnologyOffersTrainingSiteFlexibilityFlexibleMentoringRobustJob Training Author:Craig Newmark
“Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?” SelfJobsTechnologyBetter Jobs Author:Evgeny Morozov
“I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.” JobsTechnologyEmergingSaddenedDismayed Author:William Gibson
“You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.” WantSchoolJobsTechnologyBeing YourselfCollectivesGenericCastration Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?” WisdomJobsPurposePoliticsTechnologyEconomyLaborFunctionLiberalismFormation Author:Louis O. Kelso
“All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens.” WorldWantFirstsHelpingProblemHappensJobsCertainCausesStepsTechnologyIssuesPiecesProductsTypeSolutionsWhat You WantApplesChipsRough TimesSolution To A ProblemProblems In Life Author:Steve Wozniak
“It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.” ThinkingTryingWantedJobsDifficultTermLinesKnownVisionTechnologyBrilliantFrustrationSpeakersEngineersExplainingDifficult TimesDescribingFinish LineMitExplaining Things Author:Joshua Michael Stern