This story belongs to The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, individuals, items, films therefore far more that have actually affected the 2010s.
The years that was the 2010s brought us a lot to discuss in innovation, with the talking itself in some cases being a story.
Bold assures, stylish retorts and grudging mea culpas might end up being headings by themselves, particularly when they spilled from the mouths of political leaders and celeb CEOs. Some were stated personally and numerous came by Twitter, with its focus on making rapid-fire pithy musings.
But the quotes that make us believe, laugh and scratch our heads weren’t simply from widely known individuals attempting to be amusing or extensive. A well known researcher raised the alarm about quickly advancing innovations like AI, a civilian exposed a culture of unwanted sexual advances at one of the market’s most supercharged business and a little robotic stated hey there from another world.
Thanks to the aid of CNET editors all over the world, here are the 30 (unranked) prices quote that specified the years in innovation.Â
Angst at Apple
An uncomfortable iPhone minute
“Just avoid holding it that way.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an e-mail to a consumer after iPhone 4 users experienced abject call quality when they touched the phone’s antenna in a particular method. Three weeks later on, Apple revealed it would provide all iPhone 4 clients complimentary bumpers that would safeguard the antenna. (June 24, 2010)
Tough talk
“I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
Jobs as priced estimate in Walter Isaacson’s 2011 book, Steve Jobs.
‘Unless you’re smoking fracture’
I am not going to be running around attempting to get 75 pages of rundowns for individuals who are not going to be affirming. I imply, begin. 75 pages! 75 pages! You desire me to do an order on 75 pages, (and) unless you’re smoking fracture, you understand these witnesses aren’t going to be called when you have less than 4 hours.”
United States District Judge Lucy Koh who commanded the seven-year-long patents court fight in between Apple and Samsung, speaking with Apple attorney Bill Lee. It’s not a legend Koh cares to restore. (Aug. 16, 2012)
A Martian minute
“I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL”
Mars Curiosity rover via Twitter after landing on the Red Planet. (Aug. 5, 2012)
‘I’m simply another man’
“I’m no different from anyone else. I don’t have special skills. I’m just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watches what’s happening and goes, ‘This is something that’s not our place to decide. The public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.”
Whistleblower Edward Snowden speaking in a video after he launched a chest of secret files revealing the NSA can be all ears on call. (June 9, 2013)
Outside package
“Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the internet is wrong.”
Box CEO Aaron Levie through Twitter after Bezos purchased The Washington Post and Amazon stated it would open a physical shop in New York. (Oct. 9, 2014)
Consciousness raising
“It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that quite frankly women who don’t ask for raises have.”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an interview when discussing ladies’s pay. Nadella excused the remark the next day. (Oct. 9, 2014)
Speaking out
“While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook writing a coming-out column for Bloomberg. (Oct. 30, 2014)
A stopped working test
“A chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel.”
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes discussing the business’s guaranteed blood-testing innovation in an interview with The New Yorker. After The Wall Street Journal reported in 2015 that the guarantees were lies, Theranos liquified itself in 2015 and Holmes now deals with criminal scams charges for tricking financiers. (Dec. 8, 2014)
Priming the red world
“The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk talking with Stephen Colbert about ways to make Mars livable for humans. (Sept. 10, 2015)
New kid in town
“Apparently, they believe they’re gods.”
Portland, Oregon, Commissioner Steve Novick speaking to The Oregonian newspaper about Uber’s starting to operate in the city without official approval. (Dec. 5, 2015)
Bad robot
“F*** MY ROBOT P**** DADDY I’m SUCH A NAUGHTY ROBOT.”
Microsoft’s AI bot Tay via Twitter. Microsoft had developed the chat bot for 18- to 24-year-olds, but quickly had to silence its Twitter feed after humans taught Tay to parrot a number of inflammatory, obscene and racist opinions. (March 24, 2016)
The power of Pokemon
“We thought the game would be popular, but it obviously struck a nerve.”
Niantic CEO John Hanke in an interview with Business Insider about the staggering popularity of the mobile game Pokemon Go, which overwhelmed the company’s servers. (July 8, 2016)
Tough talk on Twitter
“Delete your account.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via Twitter in response to her opponent Donald Trump. (June 6, 2016)
Those missing emails
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, during a news conference, appearing to call for Russian help to hack opponent Hillary Clinton’s email. (July 27, 2016)
Hit the road, jack
“The reason to move on: courage. The courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us.”
Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, describing why Apple dropped the 3.5mm headphone jack in the iPhone 7. (Sept. 7, 2016)
A hot topic
“We recognize that we have not lived up to your expectations, or our own high standards. For this we are truly sorry.”
YH Eom, president and CEO of Samsung Europe, writing on the company’s corporate blog after several of its Galaxy Note 7 handsets caught fire. (Nov. 8, 2016)
‘A pretty crazy idea’
“Personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — it’s a very small amount of the content — to think it influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.”Â
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking at a technology conference two days after the 2016 US presidential election. He said he regretted the comment a week later. (Nov. 10, 2016)
Not a good look
“I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up.”
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick after he was captured on a dash cam video berating a driver. (March 1, 2017)
The gender balance
“When I asked our director at an org all-hands about what was being done about the dwindling numbers of women in the org compared to the rest of the company, his reply was, in a nutshell, that the women of Uber just needed to step up and be better engineers.”
Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler writing in a blog about the institutionalized sexual harassment she says she experienced at the company. (Feb. 19, 2017)
‘Nobody can recover your files’
“Maybe you are busy looking for a way to recover your files, but do not waste your time. Nobody can recover your files without our decryption service.”
Ransomware attack WannaCry announcing itself to victims. The attack, which encrypted data on a victim’s computer, crippled hospitals, phone companies and even traffic cameras. It spread across more than 100,000 organizations in 150 countries within days. (May 2017)
The net neutrality fight
“This effort is going to give our broadband providers the power to decide which voices should be amplified, what sites we visit, what connections we make and what communities we can create online. That seems to me a radical change and it’s one that I am willing to raise my voice to fight.”
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel speaking in an interview with CNET about why she voted against the repeal of net neutrality. (Nov. 16, 2017)
Danger, danger
“The genie is out of the bottle. We need to move forward on artificial intelligence development but we also need to be mindful of its very real dangers. I fear that AI may replace humans altogether.”
Physicist Stephen Hawking in an interview with Wired. Hawking would die three months later at age 76. (December 2017)
How Facebook functions
‘We thought the data had been deleted’
“We thought the data had been deleted and we should have checked. They gave us assurances and it wasn’t until other people told us it wasn’t true … We had legal assurances from them that they deleted it.”
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in an interview with the Today show about the company’s privacy lapses in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. (April 6, 2018)
Follow the money
“Senator, we run ads.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a response to a question about how Facebook makes money during a Congressional hearing about the same matter. (April 10, 2018)
Stay in your lane
“Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk via Twitter, which cost him a $20 million fine and his resignation as Tesla chairman after a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Aug. 7, 2018)
‘Be kind to each other’
“I encourage everyone to be kind to each other and treat each other with respect in everyday life and on social media. Can you do that?”
First Lady Melania Trump speaking about her “Be Best” campaign. (Oct. 23, 2018)
Tending to Twitter
“We believe it’s important that the world sees how global leaders think and how they act. And we think the conversation that ensues around that is critical.”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in an interview with Huffpost, responding to a question about whether Trump misuses the platform. Dorsey would meet with Trump at the White House three months later. (Jan. 17, 2019)
Being Bezos
“Rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, I’ve decided to publish exactly what they sent me, despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threaten.”
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos writing in a Medium post alleging the National Enquirer had tried to blackmail him by threatening to publish nude photos. (Feb. 7, 2019)
Chaos and consequences
“If you’ve built a chaos factory, you can’t dodge responsibility for the chaos.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking at Stanford University, urged the technology industry to own the disruption and consequences of the products it makes. (June 17, 2019)