Technology Quotes

Meta wants to give startups, hackers, academics, and universities access to (AI) models they can build on, tweak, and distill down to run on their own devices. This will unlock a ton of progress.

Our vision is that there should be a lot of different AI out there and AI services, not just one singular AI... I think we're going to live in a world where there are going to be hundreds of millions or billions of different AI agents eventually, probably more AI agents than there are people in the world.

Every business in the future, just like they have an email address, a website, and a social media presence today, is going to have an AI agent that their customers can talk to in the future.

So I think that the scale of the systems has created this responsibility for us, where we have to be more proactive about finding and addressing issues [harmful content]. And we can do that both by building technology that is possible now, but wasn't even possible five or ten years ago, and by hiring people at a scale that would not have been possible for us before.

The metaverse is a vision that spans many companies - the whole industry. You can think about it as the successor to the mobile internet.

Critically, no one company will run the metaverse.

You can think about the metaverse as an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content - you are in it. And you feel present with other people as if you were in other places, having different experiences that you couldn't necessarily do on a 2D app or webpage, like dancing, for example, or different types of fitness.

What virtual and augmented reality can do, and what the metaverse broadly is going to help people experience, is a sense of presence that I think is just much more natural in the way that we're made to interact. And I think it will be more comfortable.

In the future, instead of just doing this over a phone call, you'll be able to sit as a hologram on my couch, or I'll be able to sit as a hologram on your couch, and it'll actually feel like we're in the same place, even if we're in different states or hundreds of miles apart.

Hopefully in the future, asking if a company is building a metaverse will sound as ridiculous as asking a company how their internet is going.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let's do it close to each other.' That way... you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, 'I'm out of eggs. What have you got?'

One of the things that I'm very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a lot of practice. One of the equilibria that we're at today with space launch is that we don't get to practice enough.

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.