Technology

“When we released open source, it was sort of a secret weapon.”

“Korea is one of the very few countries in the world that has its own search engine.”

“What was good for records was good for broadcasting; and what was good for broadcasting will be as certainly good for talkies.”

“I think in any kind of design, you must drive for simplicity all the time. If you don't, complexity will nail you.”

“Not, of course, to my beautiful and infallible invention, but to the poor humans who have not yet been successfully immunised against human error.”

“It is now 12 years ago since I produced the first little flickering television image.”

“We have to resist media imperialism - the tendency to colonize, to define new technologies in terms of the old.”

“Technology is a phenomenal servant but a tyrannical master.”

“We gave people something they not only wanted, but discovered they needed.”

“The new world will not need little pictures. If it needs a mirror, it has the photograph and the cinema.”

“Our new aim is the organisation of the material environment, i.e. of contemporary industrial production, and all active artistic creativity must be directed towards this.”

“Our goal is to build a digital China, a country with strong cyber technology.”

“I wanted to give back to man the feeling of flight.”

“In short, nanotechnology is a method to solve problems by separating it into its smallest components.”

“If someone in security is this important, something is wrong. It means attacks are getting worse and worse.”

“It’s the whole question ... of imagination in an industrial society.”

“The needs of the enterprise are very different, and this is exactly the thing that we’re specializing in.”

“A pupil to him was an ‘anvil’ on which to beat out his ideas.”