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.
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.
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
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.
The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.
We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.
