Quotes by category:Tech

Georgia Tech’s not possible for a person to control a thousand or a million robots by individually programming each one where to go, instead, the operator controls an area that needs to be explored. Then the robots work together to determine the best ways to accomplish the job.

Magnus Egerstedt

The criminal justice system has had a horrible impact on people of color in this country, especially African Americans, for generations, if all prosecutors took race out of the picture when making charging decisions, we would probably be in a much better place as a nation than we are today.

This is really a new way to create, a new way to produce, it’s meant to turn your desk into a studio.

The new engine controller … controls valve positions, propellants [and] stuff like that going through the engine, just like you’re not using the same computer that you used five years ago, we’re not using the same controller or computer that we used 20 or 30 years ago on the space shuttle main engine.

We as users of social media platforms do not want the platforms to be telling us what we can or can’t say – or even that we can’t say falsehoods – because people spin the story of their lives to present a public face to our friends and colleagues, we don’t want Facebook or Twitter to tell us we can’t do that.

There are laws [to protect speech] and then there are rules of conduct, including dress codes at offices or schools, whether or not what’s being done by the Russians or fake news or people lying about adventures in their life, are those illegal or in violation of dress codes?

You can be at the beach, or at a park or on the road, with your cellphone GPS, the drone can deliver to wherever you are.

[Google] may be able to alleviate the problem by adding more works of art from outside Europe and North America, part of the problem perhaps can’t be fixed, though, in that it was largely wealthy Europeans who commissioned portraits in the centuries prior to our own, and these are the works of art that are popping up in the app for white people who try it.

If a white person gets matched with a 19th-century American portrait of someone who looks fairly similar, but two very different-looking Asian women get matched with the same woodblock print of a figure who looks nothing like them, it’s fair to say that people will see racial bias in the app.

I think we are in agreement with the parties — WhatsApp and Facebook — that the quality of the information provided to users could have been clearer, could have been more transparent and could have been expressed in simpler terms, we are working towards a solution on that.

We sit down with teachers, use the devices with them, show them what they can do, and ask them what content they want the device to deliver, it’s about finding content that is specific to the curriculum goals of the teacher.

In parallel with getting rid of the viruses, we have been making the pig organs so that they will not be rejected by the human recipient, the next stage will be combining these and doing clinical trials.

We now have living, healthy, four-month-old pigs that we have engineered, we have gotten rid of the retrovirus.

Mark Zuckerberg has adopted a policy of censoring news that portrays Muslim migrants in an unfavorable light and reveals the jihadi motivations of the Orlando killer.

Evidence uncovered by my Committee shows he still has questions to answer yet hes continued to duck them, refusing to respond to our invitations directly or sending representatives who dont have the right information, mark Zuckerberg continually fails to show the levels of leadership and personal responsibility that should be expected from someone who sits at the top of one of the worlds biggest companies.

Nothing has given me more mental confidence than being able to go straight from room temperature into the cold, especially in the morning, going into an ice-cold tub from just being warm in bed is - it just unlocks this thing in my mind and I feel like if I can will myself to do that thing that seems so small but hurts so much, I can do nearly anything.

Ive more or less kept up the practice of two hours a day, if you can just get 10 minutes, and sometimes thats all I can find, thats what I do.

During the day, I feel so much more focused. ... You have this very focused point of mind in terms of this drive.

I always felt safe to challenge both of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, especially my dad, and so it was definitely a privilege, but if we’re creating a culture that does n’t enable people or empower people to speak up or not, we’re gon na be able to do that for our service.

Twitter does not use political ideology to make any decisions, whether related to ranking content on our service or how we enforce our rules. We believe strongly in being impartial, and we strive to enforce our rules impartially.