#tech

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. ↗

— David Deutsch

#be the first #between #collaboration #computation #distinctively

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#communications #cryptography #did #expect #expected

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity. ↗

— Ray Dolby

#desire #developer #developments #fascination #get

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#audio #companies #computers #go #me

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#evidently #hear #industry #internet #just

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#depend #gets #got #likewise #nanotechnology

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#common #common sense #doing #enhance #first

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#each #find #generation #individuals #lucky

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff. ↗

— Monica Edwards

#age #away #electronic #now #old

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it. ↗

— Peter Erskine

#customers #launching #no point #point #ready