https://minutesof.com/on/technology/ Everyone on the record about technology: 52 verbatim quotes from 10 people, August 2012 to June 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:17 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/ba7c09ea-c4aa-4345-a876-c8717156aed3/ https://minutesof.com/q/ba7c09ea-c4aa-4345-a876-c8717156aed3/ “After being driven primarily by healthcare over the past few years, employment growth in and around New York City has broadened to include the technology sector.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches technology https://minutesof.com/q/ed85e8ea-eff3-44d3-8ac1-ba75e13948ab/ https://minutesof.com/q/ed85e8ea-eff3-44d3-8ac1-ba75e13948ab/ “Sergio, Stephan, and Emil’s work 3 on bank runs, to take what I think will become a representative example, was in a way almost infeasible prior to the ability to smartly read an immense amount of documentation.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches technology https://minutesof.com/q/269052a3-894a-43ca-a4bb-419e37ce7d80/ https://minutesof.com/q/269052a3-894a-43ca-a4bb-419e37ce7d80/ “This is the critical shift: We are no longer simply using technology to manage risk—we are using technology that is actively shaping how we perceive and interpret risk.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches technology https://minutesof.com/q/5247a50e-c245-4478-b7dd-79467a7c05d2/ https://minutesof.com/q/5247a50e-c245-4478-b7dd-79467a7c05d2/ “We have made it hard for firms to experiment with cellphone apps, streaming video, podcasts, virtual conference room presentations, and anything else that is not an e-delivered pdf.” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements technology https://minutesof.com/q/78b6730f-c5fc-457d-b69c-2bb441627408/ https://minutesof.com/q/78b6730f-c5fc-457d-b69c-2bb441627408/ “We have risk functions that operate in review cycles, but technologies and business processes that operate in real time.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches technology https://minutesof.com/q/6e177752-0bc8-4c3f-8f7a-6fb9274c69c0/ https://minutesof.com/q/6e177752-0bc8-4c3f-8f7a-6fb9274c69c0/ “Quantum computing has the potential to transform science and technology, but it also poses a long-term cybersecurity challenge because future quantum systems could break many of the cryptographic tools” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks technology https://minutesof.com/q/a1532266-e131-4ce8-830e-6e888bc021a0/ https://minutesof.com/q/a1532266-e131-4ce8-830e-6e888bc021a0/ “In an age of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, a default to paper delivery should be a relic, not a standard.” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements technology https://minutesof.com/q/6e2f849f-1f38-43d1-9159-811289ef5bb7/ https://minutesof.com/q/6e2f849f-1f38-43d1-9159-811289ef5bb7/ “I hope to see interactive and customized disclosures, something that is not possible with paper.” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements technology https://minutesof.com/q/b58e56f2-2ac5-47e0-a02a-8155a24bb273/ https://minutesof.com/q/b58e56f2-2ac5-47e0-a02a-8155a24bb273/ ““This Task Force will help ensure our financial system remains strong, secure, and competitive as new technologies reshape the global landscape.”” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks technology https://minutesof.com/q/9fc9fde9-4dce-4973-8b0e-771caae28ff6/ https://minutesof.com/q/9fc9fde9-4dce-4973-8b0e-771caae28ff6/ ““America must lead in securing the technologies that power our economy,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks technology https://minutesof.com/q/80bb5e00-3abf-4c45-8a38-d124594eeec1/ https://minutesof.com/q/80bb5e00-3abf-4c45-8a38-d124594eeec1/ “So the technological innovations I'm talking about, let's just for a starting point, let's say the railroads back in the 1860s And then radio in the nineteen twenties, the automobile, computers in the nineteen fifties and sixties, internet in 2000.” — Howard Marks, Prof G Markets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:07 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/2aca191f-f082-4a44-81a0-b321f9ba5eb1/ https://minutesof.com/q/2aca191f-f082-4a44-81a0-b321f9ba5eb1/ “All those things happened because of technology, innovation, and capitalism, which is exactly what Leo the thirteenth was warning against.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Fri, 29 May 2026 22:47:49 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/7a6a1968-0804-46e4-81d8-b253c4fb0c5d/ https://minutesof.com/q/7a6a1968-0804-46e4-81d8-b253c4fb0c5d/ “It's gonna take on work we didn't think it could do, and it and and it's gonna operate, at some point in time without instruction.” — Howard Marks, Oaktree Tue, 26 May 2026 23:26:41 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/4a1f450b-a2bb-4005-a592-a108df354a25/ https://minutesof.com/q/4a1f450b-a2bb-4005-a592-a108df354a25/ “AI, it's it's different. It's not just gonna do the job we used to do. It's gonna design new jobs. Mhmm. It's gonna assign new jobs.” — Howard Marks, Oaktree Tue, 26 May 2026 23:26:41 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/129f60b6-ce3c-42a9-8d1a-1087d06b1616/ https://minutesof.com/q/129f60b6-ce3c-42a9-8d1a-1087d06b1616/ “He retired real early in his from a age perspective. Like, I think he was around 30, and he tried to make a comeback when he was, like, 36 or something.” — Bill Gurley, Tom Bilyeu Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:01:05 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/58f0f56d-17ce-47d4-91a0-7a055b61d754/ https://minutesof.com/q/58f0f56d-17ce-47d4-91a0-7a055b61d754/ “There's never been an empire that's been in the late stage that suddenly got a technology like AI.” — David Friedberg, Suffiyan Malik Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:34:36 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/3cb83de3-f9ec-4e0a-b4e7-1470b07a26db/ https://minutesof.com/q/3cb83de3-f9ec-4e0a-b4e7-1470b07a26db/ “I don't know if you ever even know what those are. But while he was retired, everyone switched to these bigger graphite rackets with a much bigger sweet spot.” — Bill Gurley, Silicon Valley Girl Clips Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:01:05 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/5cd43cb3-fc2a-4250-b540-e5d60d9fb0f3/ https://minutesof.com/q/5cd43cb3-fc2a-4250-b540-e5d60d9fb0f3/ “OpenAI brought out a new model. And in the descriptive materials, they said that the that the model helped build the model, which is really eye opening.” — Howard Marks, CNBC Television Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:25:57 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/6807cebd-2822-43b5-96cf-71604b3bd1b1/ https://minutesof.com/q/6807cebd-2822-43b5-96cf-71604b3bd1b1/ “Founders live on the edge of a new technological shift constantly, and they can't not know what's happening next. It requires a level of studying that is foreign in other industries and other fields.” — Bill Gurley, Scott D. Clary - Success Story Podcast Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:44:44 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/4e58de77-4f33-48b0-a42b-9f893f49347a/ https://minutesof.com/q/4e58de77-4f33-48b0-a42b-9f893f49347a/ “There's no doubt that the Internet will produce a great increase in productivity. It's not clear that it'll have a positive impact on profitability. And I think the same is true of AI.” — Howard Marks, The Investor’s Podcast Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:45:06 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/77c773c1-980a-40d7-a827-749171047acb/ https://minutesof.com/q/77c773c1-980a-40d7-a827-749171047acb/ “I'm the largest technology substack and I'm telling you that it's worth it. And so, you can think, Oh, I can save the 10%, but actually the growth is all there. Hell yeah.” — Dylan Patel, Chris Best Substack Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:40 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/627d643b-04c0-4c40-b7da-6ee5409c34e2/ https://minutesof.com/q/627d643b-04c0-4c40-b7da-6ee5409c34e2/ “I think there's relatively little doubt that AI will change the world. And AI has been successful as an investment, and people are piling in,” — Howard Marks, CNBC Television Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:15:11 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/8bf971e1-e4b0-47b1-a4cb-152d6b0150ba/ https://minutesof.com/q/8bf971e1-e4b0-47b1-a4cb-152d6b0150ba/ “And it was all about like, we're building this better world with all of these crazy technologies,” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:14:12 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/b53b661d-90b7-4d90-9660-ee851c1b7f93/ https://minutesof.com/q/b53b661d-90b7-4d90-9660-ee851c1b7f93/ “your show is quite different and you talk about what if things go right, why do you think that is resonating and are we changing or is it Are you kind of capturing a small audience and the bigger one still sort of techno pessimistic?” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:14:12 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/f97b259c-60b0-472d-af22-b0556d71830d/ https://minutesof.com/q/f97b259c-60b0-472d-af22-b0556d71830d/ “You watch all the shows on Netflix, you watch all the movies, Aaron Brockovich, like the ones that work, the ones that seem to resonate, which means that's what people truly kind of want, are the ones that talk about things gone wrong,” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:14:12 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/2d2c98fc-98f0-4bf3-bfa3-94c1fdacfdec/ https://minutesof.com/q/2d2c98fc-98f0-4bf3-bfa3-94c1fdacfdec/ “Everyone thinks that technology always has a catch. There's always something bad emerging. Robots are gonna kill us all. AI is gonna wipe out human civilization. Nuclear power is gonna melt down and destroy neighborhoods.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:14:12 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/eb4f5254-18d6-4785-aea8-2d22d008ddc3/ https://minutesof.com/q/eb4f5254-18d6-4785-aea8-2d22d008ddc3/ “the worst thing that you want to do is to have a big bang change in the intelligence community and introduce a new system.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:19:11 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/768f762f-1121-48ca-b120-8e17306a472a/ https://minutesof.com/q/768f762f-1121-48ca-b120-8e17306a472a/ “of course, the worst thing that you want to do is to have a big bang change in the intelligence community and introduce a new system.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:19:11 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/99e48a38-31ee-4cda-8e86-cc25d5e873f0/ https://minutesof.com/q/99e48a38-31ee-4cda-8e86-cc25d5e873f0/ “And, of course, the worst thing that you want to do is to have a big bang change in the intelligence community and introduce a new system.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:19:11 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/bd584eea-3a02-453b-bc54-23752a6b06c4/ https://minutesof.com/q/bd584eea-3a02-453b-bc54-23752a6b06c4/ “some of us, I think this is magic because it didn't think it was possible.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:19:11 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/6b7533d5-73ff-4b9f-9c67-4fe404bdddd3/ https://minutesof.com/q/6b7533d5-73ff-4b9f-9c67-4fe404bdddd3/ “What Palantir does brilliantly is you can stick it over the top of all these legacy systems and make them much more intelligent and get them to talk to each other.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:19:11 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/21308406-2dac-4a4f-a048-63e5f5d8d246/ https://minutesof.com/q/21308406-2dac-4a4f-a048-63e5f5d8d246/ “What Palantir does brilliantly is you can stick it over the top of all these legacy systems and make them much more intelligent and get them to talk to each other.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:54:40 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/bf9bc229-31ab-40a4-b367-e7b4ca3130df/ https://minutesof.com/q/bf9bc229-31ab-40a4-b367-e7b4ca3130df/ “It was 17 megabytes of data. That's like as much data as you get when you take a photo on your iPhone now or two photos on your iPhone pretty much.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/937e8e7b-afa5-4c75-b1a2-f5c776934a01/ https://minutesof.com/q/937e8e7b-afa5-4c75-b1a2-f5c776934a01/ “Can you imagine the world today without the internet? And yet I imagine that 99% of the internet stocks that came out are worthless today.” — Howard Marks, The Church Sag Harbor Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:45:03 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/10522b01-f44a-489f-bd06-b42d63aaed99/ https://minutesof.com/q/10522b01-f44a-489f-bd06-b42d63aaed99/ “They were able to suck up all the text on the internet and use that text to make a prediction on what the answer should be when someone asks a question word by word.” — David Friedberg, Seed World Group Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:23:06 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/2a2d7c58-6d7d-413e-939d-8127863af1fc/ https://minutesof.com/q/2a2d7c58-6d7d-413e-939d-8127863af1fc/ “We've developed a new system of of breeding that we call boosted breeding that really changes how we do breeding, the pace of gains, and also allows for true seed propagation in plants where we're typically doing vegetative propagation where there isn't a seed business today.” — David Friedberg, Seed World Group Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:17:53 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/3852c40c-1d77-4af5-97c3-abd014d5ce96/ https://minutesof.com/q/3852c40c-1d77-4af5-97c3-abd014d5ce96/ “And I don't think blocking ASML or blocking AI technology or blocking anything is working. It's just not working.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/a6e1d390-d00f-4ac6-9f0b-1e4b08a45e07/ https://minutesof.com/q/a6e1d390-d00f-4ac6-9f0b-1e4b08a45e07/ “I ask all the AIs, has anyone tried to commercialize the learnings of the Navy? And they said, no, everywhere I ask” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:50:28 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/66d9c00f-abb2-4605-b012-3c8d3f9e6e45/ https://minutesof.com/q/66d9c00f-abb2-4605-b012-3c8d3f9e6e45/ “They weren't allowed to do any more gene therapy treatments. And since then we now have literally dozens of gene therapy treatments that can cure dozens of human diseases saving millions of lives.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/159dca87-2acf-4221-821f-f9e49c9d7bb5/ https://minutesof.com/q/159dca87-2acf-4221-821f-f9e49c9d7bb5/ “In the nineteen seventies, they started to turn over all the rides in Tomorrowland at Disneyland and every ride got remade as a fear of technology ride.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/97a1c573-772d-4213-9a5a-7e1e0fbf75db/ https://minutesof.com/q/97a1c573-772d-4213-9a5a-7e1e0fbf75db/ “In 1955, Disneyland opened, I've told this story before with this ride called Tomorrowland. This area called Tomorrowland. I mean, you've been there. And every ride there was about the future opportunity with technology.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/13312437-d344-400d-a3cd-5dc2f015bf3d/ https://minutesof.com/q/13312437-d344-400d-a3cd-5dc2f015bf3d/ “At that time, probably the largest we were known to be the largest users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud because we were ingesting so much data to build these models that related all the variables of farming and the weather to predict outcome.” — David Friedberg, AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/ee57bc0b-2c81-45ad-b3fe-a9c11cfd13e3/ https://minutesof.com/q/ee57bc0b-2c81-45ad-b3fe-a9c11cfd13e3/ “And you put them together in a bunch of tanks, and then they can take carbon out of the atmosphere and they can actually make starch.” — David Friedberg, Consumer VC with Mike Gelb Sun, 30 Apr 2023 12:51:57 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/59c59dd6-3fa1-4c35-98db-497ee836adf7/ https://minutesof.com/q/59c59dd6-3fa1-4c35-98db-497ee836adf7/ “Yep. Now digital technologies have driven the cost down of DNA sequencing faster than Moore's Law in the past twenty years.” — David Friedberg, Dr Brian Keating Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:00:09 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/add6caa6-b6ed-4dee-be75-51ce899b2035/ https://minutesof.com/q/add6caa6-b6ed-4dee-be75-51ce899b2035/ “I think sustainability arises from building technology based solutions that let consumers consume more and dropping the price and dropping the environmental impact.” — David Friedberg, My First Million Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:57:55 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/9ce02045-94d1-4249-9949-cf903785073e/ https://minutesof.com/q/9ce02045-94d1-4249-9949-cf903785073e/ “I'm a big believer that sustainability in the twenty first century does not arise from convincing consumers to consume less. I think sustainability arises from building technology based solutions that let consumers consume more” — David Friedberg, My First Million Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:57:55 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/12521fe7-c99c-4174-b90e-043c6596236a/ https://minutesof.com/q/12521fe7-c99c-4174-b90e-043c6596236a/ “The the the most asymmetric bet maybe in the history of all of investing is having a golden ticket to have access to the best technology companies in the world today.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast Sat, 17 Apr 2021 02:12:13 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/5efd8221-e7b8-46b2-972a-8c2d0e9de083/ https://minutesof.com/q/5efd8221-e7b8-46b2-972a-8c2d0e9de083/ “Global wealth, as measured by the mountain of labor and capital that exists in the world, the conveniences that will be available to people will be better than they've ever been before, but the distribution of those will be way more concentrated as we've already seen.” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/5c39f5d7-890f-445c-9516-400d4587567e/ https://minutesof.com/q/5c39f5d7-890f-445c-9516-400d4587567e/ “Would argue personally they're at parody, but 50 bps is huge. If you're 50 bps better, that can be the foundation of hundreds of billions of dollars in market value.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/0cfb7c5a-c527-4a0b-851b-25e8158fa91e/ https://minutesof.com/q/0cfb7c5a-c527-4a0b-851b-25e8158fa91e/ “I would argue peak economic, political, social change as a result of that invention was seventy to one hundred years later during the peak of the industrial revolution eighteen twenty to eighteen fifty.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/66bb22b3-09d2-4a87-9a71-ff14a3b5cb60/ https://minutesof.com/q/66bb22b3-09d2-4a87-9a71-ff14a3b5cb60/ “I would argue her work and kind of history suggests that we have another thirty to forty years of rapid and powerful disruption ahead of us.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 technology https://minutesof.com/q/6616a55b-13af-40dd-af42-16415137b37a/ https://minutesof.com/q/6616a55b-13af-40dd-af42-16415137b37a/ “We'll come back to that in a minute. And Wikileaks is disclosing 251,287 US State Department telegrams. 251,287.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Cambridge Union Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:29:16 +0000 technology