I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
Lt. Gen. George Miller: My loyalty is to the kids. I am a soldier. Karen Clarke: You're not a soldier. Lt. Gen. George Miller: I've been a soldier my whole life! What do you mean I'm not a soldier? I'm a soldier! Look at the uniform - what, do you th...
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Kalau dalam bidang keagamaan sendiri terdapat keragaman dalam kesatuan, maka dalam kebudayaan Islam sudah semestinya pula terdapat keragaman - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)
