Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Eddie: Don't go puttin' none of that stuff on my sled, Clark. You know that metal plate in my head? I had to have it replaced, cause every time Catherine revved up the microwave I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half hour or so. So over at...
Hilly Holbrook: Maybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief. Aibileen Clark: I know something about you. Don't you forget that. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plent...
Joan Clarke: No one normal could have done that. Do you know, this morning... I was on a train that went through a city that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you. I bought a ticket from a man who would likely be dead if it wasn't for you. I read up on...
Karen Clarke: Yes, Assistant Secretary, on point six, it feels like there's already been an assumption that we're invading and don't you think that we should discuss the practical implications? I mean, this is, after all, the War Committee. Linton Ba...
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James...
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
