Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.
I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.
Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
