#tech

A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#available #distributed #easily #grow #land

Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology. ↗

— Jean-Marie Messier

#communications #customers #few #globe #groups

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#based #been #could #dinosaurs #few

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#company #detection #dollars #encryption #essentially

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #despite #game #getting #going

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#apologize #because #big #button #comedy

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#business #business world #everything #executive #knows

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers. ↗

— Gordon Moore

#area #careers #coming #degree #excitement

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity. ↗

— Akio Morita

#come #conditions #could #create #desire

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums. ↗

— Joe Morton

#approach #basically #camera #craft #different