"Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security"

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"