#log

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

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #love #psychology #art

The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless. ↗

— Russell Kirk

#ideology #liberalism #freedom

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. ↗

— John Doerr

#clearly #more #now #phenomenon #readers

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#audio #companies #computers #go #me

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

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

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