Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We’ve got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don’t have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans’ natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels’ understanding of digital technology.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

I’ve tried to make ‘Strictly Ballroom’ impossible to date. It does feel a bit ’80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.