Technology(116)

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
Andrew Brown

"Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital."
Vincent Canby

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."
Jimmy Carter

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."
Jim Clark

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke

"There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features."
James Coates

"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
Bob Dole

"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
Esther Dyson

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
Freeman Dyson

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."
Esther Dyson