“Entrepreneurs and founders have to learn to be the most adaptable people in their business- that's really important – otherwise, the business will outgrow the founder, or the founder will cause the business to stagnate or slow.”
— Ben Francis
Founder and CEO of Gymshark, fitness apparel company

The quote archive

Technology

A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.

I also don't want our work to be part of a hype cycle that distracts from other issues.

— Susan Schneider

I do worry that, at the end of the day, we might be laying down the tendrils of surveillance and that they will be hard to remove.

— Susan Schneider

The same GPT, say 6.1 or whatever the latest model is, could be conscious when it's run on one kind of system and not conscious on another.

— Susan Schneider

You can form an online community, you can be a Discord server, but unless you actually have some sovereign territory, it remains an idea in people's minds.

— Liam Bates

The first rule of social media was: make people angry and silo them with their own kind. There couldn't be a worse training for relationships, or for citizenship, or for democracy.

— Sherry Turkle

I always was a software maker before I was a software writer. I love the writing part, but I like the making part more.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

We've never had end users able to create or rewrite their operating system at this level, and be at the same level as the operating system designer.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

Folks who have developed deep skills in the production of software liked the idea that they were this special clerical class, the only ones mediating access to the computer.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

I have complete humility in the face of the fact that my programming skills, as they were, are no longer economically viable as independent leverage for creating things.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

The frontier models, especially when you run them in collaboration with each other, are better than virtually every programmer on Earth at a broad set of programming skills.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

First of all, I think that is the greatest illusion in technology history. It is sold as something that it isn't. And what I miss with that technology is that it does not have any soul.

— Jesper Kouthoofd

So that is clearly a phenomenon, and it is a structured solid craft, and we have no idea what it represents.

— Jonathan Caplan KC

What you are really talking about are intelligent, non-human intelligences that are here in craft which perform in a way that is beyond our current technology.

— Jonathan Caplan KC

It’s this weird dichotomy of superintelligence and super stupidity, sort of mixed in one scenario.

— Richard Socher

No matter how poor you are, you don’t really have to wear rags anymore. Why? Because technology automated the production of t-shirts.

— Richard Socher