“The magic of public-key cryptography is that you can have a system where you can send a message that only one person can read, but you don't have to have any prior arrangement with that person.”— Whitfield Diffie
“It was a magic moment. We were all jumping up and down, and I knew from then on I wasn’t going to be a DJ anymore.”— John Thomas Draper
“We are talking about augmenting human intellect. We're not talking about automating humanity, we're not talking about taking it over. We're talking about making it more capable.”— Douglas Engelbart
“It's important to have free and open source software to be able to control your own technical environment.”— Jon Lech Johansen
“The single biggest change in the last 20 years in this country has been the splintering of the media.”— Ted Koppel
“Social media is a powerful tool, but it's also a breeding ground for misinformation.”— Howard Kurtz
“The goal of humanistic intelligence is to have technology that is so seamlessly integrated with our lives that we don't even notice it's there.”— Steve Mann
“Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.”— Ralph Merkle