The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and

Hear the words of Harvey Weinstein, who once observed with awe the rising giants of Silicon Valley: “The great thing that guys like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it’s art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.” These words are not a mere compliment, but a reflection on the hidden kinship between invention and creation, between the logic of machines and the poetry of human imagination. For when technology is wielded with vision, it ceases to be just tool or mechanism—it becomes a living canvas upon which the future is painted.

In ages past, men separated art from technology. Art was the realm of beauty, emotion, and soul; technology, the realm of calculation, structure, and force. Yet the greatest minds have always known the truth: that the engineer and the artist are brothers, that the sculptor shaping marble and the inventor shaping code both wrestle with resistance to bring forth creation. Weinstein’s words point to this ancient truth reborn in modern times: that in the hands of visionaries like Zuckerberg and the founders of Google, the machine becomes brush, the algorithm becomes song, and the platform itself becomes a cathedral of human connection.

Consider the story of Google. What began as a simple search tool became, through brilliance and refinement, a window to the world’s knowledge. Each line of code was not simply calculation but a choice of design, an act of vision, a stroke of digital artistry. The elegance of the search algorithm lay not only in its efficiency, but in its beauty—how it captured the complexity of human inquiry and rendered it simple. This is what Weinstein meant when he spoke of virtuosos: those who elevate technology beyond utility into the realm of wonder.

The same is true of Facebook, born from Zuckerberg’s vision of connection. To many, it was just another site, another piece of software. But in his hands it became a gallery of human life, a place where stories, relationships, and memories could be displayed like works of living art. Whatever one thinks of its consequences, the spirit of creation within it was unmistakable: the transformation of cold lines of code into a stage for human drama. Here again we see technology treated not as machine, but as art, sculpted by the hands of its creator.

Yet within Weinstein’s observation lies also a challenge. Not all who wield technology reach such artistry. Many create tools that are clumsy, lifeless, or driven only by profit. To call technology art is not to say that all technology is art, but that it has the potential to become so when shaped by vision and mastery. Just as not every painter is a Michelangelo, not every programmer is a virtuoso. True artistry in technology demands discipline, imagination, and the courage to see beyond function into meaning.

The lesson, then, is luminous: approach your craft—whether code, canvas, or commerce—not as mere labor, but as art. Treat every detail with care, every choice with reverence, every creation with vision. The tools of our age may be digital, but the spirit required to shape them is eternal. If you bring your soul into your work, if you treat technology not as mechanism but as medium, then you too may create something that resonates not just with the mind, but with the heart.

Therefore, beloved listener, take action. Whatever your tools—whether words, machines, or numbers—approach them with the reverence of an artist. See yourself not merely as worker, but as creator. Strive to become a virtuoso, one whose craft transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. For in this lies the legacy of Zuckerberg, of the Google founders, and of all who dared to treat the coldness of technology as a living flame of artistry.

Thus the words of Harvey Weinstein endure: “They treat their technology like it’s art, and in the hands of virtuosos, it is.” Let them remind you that the boundary between technology and art is not real—it is imagination that makes the difference. And imagination, when joined with mastery, has the power to transform the world.