#techno

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

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

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

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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #being #day #human #human being

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#everywhere #proved #regimes #technology #telecommunications

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country. ↗

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#africa #better #capacity #country #help