#techno

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

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

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#archetypal #damages #evils #important #longer

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#coming #each #flourishing #new #new ways

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. ↗

— William Gibson

#become #evil #good #i #i think

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#bass #direction #go #i #interested