“A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.” Quote by Peter Diamandis
“If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.” IfsInspirationWould BeAbleMovingMotivationTechnologyTomorrowSecondsTransportationTaxiCabTokyoTaxi CabsMicroprocessor Author:Danny Hillis
“We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.” PeopleTechnologyFivePlanetsSevenBillionsMobileSubscription Author:Paul Conneally
“Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.” WorldLooksMightTechnologyResponseConnectedDisasterGlimpseHaitiHyper Author:Paul Conneally
“Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'” WantShouldInspirationMotivationTechnologyWant UConsumingCouches Author:Clay Shirky
“Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.” BookHelpingTechnologyInternetTickets Author:Luis von Ahn
“The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?” PeopleIfsMenMillionsTechnologyMoonResearch Author:Luis von Ahn
“They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.” UsedTechnologyWeekMonkeysBathroomTypewriters Author:Robin Ince
“Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.” PeopleHumansHelpingInspirationMotivationMillionsTechnologyImpossibleInternetProjectsHuman KnowledgeCoordinating Author:Luis von Ahn
“[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.” SaidInspirationMotivationTechnologyFeetMarkBombsBarrelsPickles Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.” UseInspirationMotivationTechnologyIssuesOughtBombsAccuracy Author:Malcolm Gladwell