I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
Interpretation
This quote critiques the government's ability to select and implement rapidly changing technology effectively.
Michael Bloomberg suggests that government, due to its lengthy democratic processes, struggles to keep up with the fast-paced advancements in technology. As a result, the technologies that they choose to endorse or invest in often become obsolete by the time they are implemented, highlighting the inefficiency of governmental decision-making in an evolving tech landscape.
In practice
In a speech addressing technological innovation, one might use this quote to discuss the government's role in tech development.
Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom
No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.
Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.
If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.
After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is going to go. And that is where I think I've tried over the years to in some ways use my customers as a filter or a predictor of where technology as a whole is going to go. Or where the world as a whole is going to go.
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.
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