Quotes About Technology

Complexity is the main enemy of security.

Cryptography and security engineers need to know more than how current cryptographic protocols work; they need to know how to use cryptography.

Some saw cryptography as a great technological equalizer, a mathematical tool that would put the lowliest privacy-seeking individual on the same footing as the greatest national intelligence agencies.

Cryptography by itself is fairly useless. It has to be part of a much larger system.

Even though cryptography is only a small part of the security system, it is a very critical part. Cryptography is the part that has to provide access to some people but not to others. This is very tricky.

The function of cryptographic protocols is to minimize the amount of trust required.

Fractal image compression can even guess, by interpolation, what lies outside the frame of a picture.

Detecting Cancer The surface structures of cancer cells are crinkly and wrinkly. These convoluted structures display fractal properties which vary markedly during the different stages of the cancer cell's growth. Using computers, mathematical pictures can be obtained, which reveal whether or not cells are going cancerous. The computer is able to measure the fractal structure of cells. If cells are too fractal, it spells trouble. There is something wrong with those cells.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

For now, I strap on chapter four of Mars Rescue, study the console, then ease back on the throttle for a smooth flight through star fields.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

Increasingly, people seem to interpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling – the incomprehensible should cause suspicion, not admiration. Possibly this results from the mistaken belief that using a mysterious device confers [extra] power on the user.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

Watching movies today is a passive experience, and there is little demand on the viewer's imagination.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage

Being without electronics for more than a few hours is like being kidnapped by a cult deprogrammer in a cheap brown suit and taken to a fluorescent motel

God is unhappy. You should know that. He created us to love each other, to be the miracle, not to swipe right.

Layla draws on her electronic cigarette. This is what the future looks like, Scott thinks. We smoke technology now.

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.