“When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.” EnoughHelpingMovingOpportunityRealizingInspiringResponsibilityTechnologyWillingMastersBirthAssumingThought ProvokingPregnancyChildbirthGreat OpportunityGiving BirthTrue PowerBirthing Author:Christiane Northrup
“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.” PeopleWorldFirstsHumansEnoughPovertyTechnologyEconomicConditionsDevelopmentDiseaseCapableFirst TimeCurrentsHuman ConditionIntegrationIlliteracyEconomic Integration Author:Clare Short
“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 like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.” WantEnoughPowerfulTechnologyWhat You Want Book:Sorry Please Thank You: Stories Source: Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
“It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.” PeopleWantEnoughStuffTechnologyNotionGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Genevieve Bell
“The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.” PeopleIfsGivingCountryEnoughChancePoorPovertyTechnologyRichRevolutionBenefitsEthicsDrivenLiftsOur TimeDecentGapsToysContinuingPoor PeopleRich And PoorPoor CountriesRich CountriesDecent LifeScientific RevolutionNew Toys Author:Freeman Dyson
“The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment.” PersonsDoeEnoughSpiritualTechnologyBecomingProtectMachinesEmptinessConstructiveInner LifeDetachedSchizoid Book:Love and will Source: Love and will
“Things go wrong for me, all the time, with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.” FeelsTryingEnoughAbleSchoolBrainTechnologyStupidFiguresPeriodsProtectFamiliarDumbThumbsOld School Author:Johnny Depp
“It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.” WayHumansEnoughSeemsTechnologyResourcesDollarsTerrorismSpendingBillionsProvenStoppingBangsHuman Resources Author:Mike Huckabee
“Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.” PeopleEnoughTechnologyPlanetsReadyClimate ChangeNot ReadySave The Planet Author:Nhat Hanh
“You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.” ThinkingKnowsShouldPersonsEnoughUsedCertainLanguageTechnologyImpactEvolve Author:Aimee Mullins
“The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.” EnoughTechnologyStanding OutBest Technology Author:Aaron Levie
“Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.” ThinkingEnoughGirlGamesBoysCareersTechnologyViolenceInformationCollegeInvolvedComputerEnough TimeInformation TechnologyComputingComputer Games Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III
“I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.” BelieveEnoughUseValuesI BelieveTechnologyReadyMaterialsPaperPaidNewspapersVersionsConsumersOnlinePrintProtectedPublishersPapersCirculationImplementationDrm Author:Robert G. Picard
“All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.” PeopleNeedsChildrenEnoughValuesDiesLeadershipPoorTechnologyHealthEqualEthicsInnovationHuman RightsIdeologyReasonableNutritionToiletsEqual RightsAffordableBasic NeedsPoor Children Author:Bill Gates
“Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.” GivingEnoughFunnyScienceTechnologyFeetCoupleRopeUnix Author:Eric Allman
“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.” RealEndsEnoughHelpingGoalResultsTechnologyCostResearchInnovationCleanDrivenSettingSettingsConsumersAppropriateAggressiveCarbonBreakthroughReductionTrajectoryBarometerResearch And Innovation Author:Vinod Khosla
“We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The progressive view is that we are smart enough and ethical enough to not have to be subservient to corporations. We can create our own resilient, localized communities.” NeedsEnoughPoliticalCommunityViewsTechnologyEconomicSmartCorporationsFuelRejectsProgressiveEthicalFossilsFossil FuelPolitical SystemsResilientEconomic SystemsOutdatedSubservient Author:Tim DeChristopher
“It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.” IfsWorldHeartSoulEnoughTechnologyWireCircuitsShort Circuit Author:Tom Brokaw
“Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.” WorldMadeEndsEnoughJobsCasesTechnologyStealingBlockApplesChanging The WorldAffordableXeroxGreat Technology Author:Steve Wozniak
“Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.” PeopleIfsWellsMadeWarRealEnoughUseKidsInterestSpaceFictionTechnologyFantasyWrittenGunMachinesRelationScience FictionStartingCaringFamiliarSuitsAliensRaysSci FiWizardsSpace TravelPlausibleNot CaringLasersTime MachineFederationWince Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“So each of the commercials- basically it's an action movie cliché. "Bus" is very much inspired by Speed obviously, where you have a high-jacked out of control bus, and you have heroes who are trying to jump from a moving vehicle to the bus and they just can't do it because the moving vehicle can't get close enough, because all these VW cars have this distancing technology, which is really fantastic.” TryingEnoughActionMovingTechnologyCarHeroInspiredSpeedFantasticBusVehicleAction Movie Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.” YearsWellsEnoughKidsTechnologyObjectsTheoryFoolFitMouthsYears AgoMedicineDumbPoolGenesSurviving Author:Lenny Bruce
“I'm old enough to remember the advent of CD. You thought, "What's this piece of space age technology that's in front of me?" Now I ask, "When's the last time you bought a CD?" You see things come and you see things go, and you have to be on your toes and be nimble and stay with it, or you die. It's exciting. I love technology.” EnoughAgeLastsRememberDiesAsksSpaceTechnologyPiecesFrontsExcitingLast TimeToesCdsAdventNimble Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.” WorldLongEnoughProblemTermTechnologyInnovationProsperitySolveEntrepreneurshipLong TermChanging The World Author:Naveen Jain
“One of the biggest issues with renewables right now is the fact that if the wind isn't blowing, if the sun isn't shining, we don't have energy. Many people are working on storage technology so when the wind isn't blowing, we can use the energy stored in our giant batteries, essentially. But what happens if we don't have enough stored energy?” PeopleIfsEnoughFactsUseHappensEnergyTechnologySunIssuesWindRight NowShiningGiantsBatteriesStorage Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct animals in the lab. The problem really isn't scientific - it's cultural. We aren't yet able to coordinate ourselves as a global civilization to do something simple like bring food to a famine-stricken region. We can actually use current satellite technologies to predict where famine will strike next, but we can't get food there - usually for political reasons.” ReasonEnoughUseProblemMightAbleEarthPoliticalNextSimpleAnimalTechnologyPathCivilizationInternationalCurrentsStrikesRegionsFamineLabsSatellitesAsteroidsCoordinationCoordinatesExtinct Animals Author:Annalee Newitz
“There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.” PeopleEnoughGovernmentDesireEnergyStepsTechnologyEconomyReadyBehaviorAssumingOilAlternativesCorporateGood EnoughLocksMomentumNo MoneyNot ReadyNot Good EnoughImpetusSystems Of GovernmentAlternative EnergyCollusion Author:Josh Tickell
“What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.” PeopleYearsHumansHeartEnoughWholeTogetherLawSpiritLyingValuesSocialAnswersQualityPrinciplesTechnologyClearGreaterHealthyBehaviorResearchIncreaseAgreePhysicsPreservesThirtyMeaning Of LifeAddressesInvestigationCompellingHuman HeartQuality Of LifeThirty YearsComing TogetherLaws Of PhysicsCohesionGuiding Principles Author:Doc Childre