#tech

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#bigger #envisaged #future #i #much

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. ↗

— Iain Banks

#safety #story #technology #trope #age

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before. ↗

— James Levine

#done #easy #front #interpretive #ought

Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#inspirational #politics #technology #age

I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home. ↗

— Tom Leykis

#cigar #enjoy #evening #forward #home

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. ↗

— El Lissitzky

#down #energy #energy source #expression #heavens

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#bring #cancer #cause #classic #discovered

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#dad #had #i #i think #inventor

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally. ↗

— John McKinley

#been #passion #professionally #technology #true

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected. ↗

— John McKinley

#business model #doing #essential #essential thing #expected