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.
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
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.
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris.
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
