“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.” IfsThinkingHardStoriesUseOpportunitySocialDealsTechnologyMediaSocial MediaTraditionalPublishersNew TechnologyProactive Author:Ian Rankin
“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.” ThinkingTryingHardForceTechnologyFiguresWindOur SocietyGale Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.” IfsMeanHardStatesDifficultTechnologyExampleTaughtCostPhysicsClassroomGovernorsBroadband Author:George W. Bush
“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.” WorldHumansHas BeensHardIndividualGivenTechnologyIssuesDependsProtectSurvivalCommitmentAssumingSpeciesFloatsRelentlessPierceReassuranceOmenEmpiricismKnowledge Of The WorldBison Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.” WorldGivingBookHardTechnologyPagesCustomersPartnersCollaborationUnusualPublishingFlexibilityAmazon Author:Jeff Bezos
“Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.” WorldNeedsHardEnoughEnergyEasyTechnologyPolicyInternationalDisasterDevelopingScience And TechnologyEco Author:Burton Richter
“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.” PeopleKnowsWantHardShowsWantedInspiringTechnologyFocusGroupsDesignProductsExperienceWant UInnovatorsBest JobUser ExperienceGraphic ArtistInspirational DesignSimplicity In DesignFocus GroupsProduct DesignBest DesignKnowing What You WantFocus In Business Author:Steve Jobs
“The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.” WellsHardTechnologyCreativeIndustryCreative Industries Author:Steve Jobs
“Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.” BelieveHardWould BeEarthLawLife IsTechnologyProgressCivilizationSurvivalCompetitionRidiculousBeing TrueElsewhereFierceHarshAdvanced Civilization Book:The Forge of God Source: The Forge of God
“In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.” KnowsWorldKindHardKidsUsedChoicesIndividualCreativityTechnologyEasierEmpowermentToolsAccessUsed To BeBe KindIndividual Choice Author:Steve Ballmer