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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.