Genevieve Bell famous quotes

It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
-- Genevieve Bell

#Technology #People #Not Good Enough

If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it
-- Genevieve Bell

#Powerful #World #Powerful Women

Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.
-- Genevieve Bell

#Smart #Might #Today

What makes us human is what is delightful
-- Genevieve Bell

#Humans

I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.
-- Genevieve Bell

#Thinking #Creating #Interesting

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'
-- Genevieve Bell

#Thinking #Office #Strange

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.