The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
DiogenesIf you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
Elon MuskLight is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.
Stephen CoveyMy first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
Dolly PartonThaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David ThoreauI’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.
Brian EnoEvery once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
Dr. SeussIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
Steve JobsThe progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
VoltaireI’m not a futurist.
Ray BradburyThe civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAfter launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.
Mark ZuckerbergAll art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.
George LucasWhat really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
BonoEver since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas AdamsTo be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David ThoreauI am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond TutuThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo GalileiI have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘
Elizabeth KennyConnectivity is a human right.
Mark ZuckerbergWalking is man’s best medicine.
HippocratesSelf-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
Elon MuskAlthough nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da VinciWhy don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
Steven WrightIt is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John RuskinThe Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill GatesTo my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
Stephen HawkingTo turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve JobsIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeI actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.
Mark ZuckerbergMen have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David ThoreauBut there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.
Jeff BezosWith a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.
Paul AusterI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David ThoreauSee that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. FeynmanI’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
Elon MuskWhat I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
Elon MuskWe’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.
George W. BushDigital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Bill GatesEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
HippocratesThe human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.
Herbert HooverNature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaThe Internet is a big distraction.
Ray BradburyStudy hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che GuevaraI was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.
Elon MuskThe multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
Jordan PetersonThe forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.
John MuirAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil GibranExtremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander PopeDeath, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph AddisonThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanI never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
Dolly PartonWe no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.
Douglas AdamsWhen we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.
Barack ObamaLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein