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Quotes About Technology

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.
~ Eric Schmidt
Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government
~ Leon Louw
With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.
~ Robin Hayes
It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
~ Roger Wicker
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
~ Elon Musk
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
~ Erykah Badu
Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
~ Bill Gates
I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.
~ William Gibson
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
~ Edward Snowden
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.
~ Tom Lantos
I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.
~ Tim Cook
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
~ Ian Bremmer
I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.
~ James L. Barksdale
Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.
~ Steve Kluger
One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.
~ Michael Arrington
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
~ Michael J. Saylor
If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.
~ Peter Drucker
Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
~ Rupert Murdoch
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
~ Bill Gates
Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices.
~ Steven Magee
I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.
~ Jimmi Simpson