Best technology & force Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.”

Years May Whole Today Force Half Technology Economic Ten Years Ago Investment Gaps Defence Alliances Expenditures Hamper

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“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.”

Thinking Trying Hard Force Technology Figures Wind Our Society Gale

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised.....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.”

“The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.”

Passion Force Technology Happened Fashion Mirrors Entertainment Instant Museums Participation Fascination Explosions Millennium Exhibitions Mirror Image

Author:Alexander McQueen

“Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.”

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Author:Anthony Principi

“The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.”

Force Wealth Ability Levels Technology Depends Capacity Essence Forces Of Nature New Knowledge

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.”

Action Science Force Understanding Natural Perfect Moral Technology Achieve Science And Technology

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.”

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Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.”

Force Technology Effects Capitalism Democratic Strive Contrary Accepted Opposition Brighter Carrier Brighter Future

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.”

Men Turns Force Technology Liberating

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.”

“In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.”

World Real Force Technology Risk Advantage Labor Defined Lowest Labor Force Comparative Advantage

Book:The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

“I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.”

World Force Technology Modern Century Climate Climate Change Connected Driving Ships 21st Century Globalization Driving Force Containers Warehouse Modern Technology

Author:David Titley

“My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.”

Littles Force Levels Situation Technology Higher Bars Consumers Useless Paranoia Biggest Fear Up To Date

Author:Paul Polman

“we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.”

Men World Force Morning Technology Wake Up Connected Liberating

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.”

Culture Left Force Technology Promise Independent Remove Agendas Division Covered Disguise Technological Deficiency Bluffs

Author:Donald Phillip Verene

“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”

Thinking Force Technology Mythology Planes Machinery

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology.”

World Together Moving Force Technology Forces Of Nature

Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman

“There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.”

“I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.”

Reason Use Funny Science Force Technology Machines No Reason

Author:Duke of Wellington

“Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.”

Ifs Strong Force Technology India Empowering Empowered Margins Information Technology Springboards

Author:Narendra Modi

“India is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!”

Wells Strong Force Technology Modern Arms India Committed Governance Armed Forces

Author:Narendra Modi

“I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.”

Force Technology Personality Engaged

Author:Douglas Coupland

“When Donald Trump becomes president, he'll fly on a jumbo jet rebadged Hair Force One. It will be oversized to contain his massive ego, and will have all the latest and greatest blowdryer technology.”

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Author:Michael R. Burch

“Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993

“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.”

“It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.”

Political Force Acting Technology Majors Machines Political Systems

Author:Terence McKenna

“The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.”

Humans Force Imagination Technology Planets Safety Surface Unleashed Conjunctions Human Imagination

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.”

Light Moving Force Space Steps Technology Design Tools Tasks Endure Moving Forward Flight Agency Stations Gravity Artificial Space Flight Daunting Tasks

Author:Andy Weir

“The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.”

Thinking Law Force Technology Intersections Good Thinking

Author:Bill Gates

“In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.”

Way Force Technology Movement Response Injustice Allowing Unleashed

Author:Andrew Aydin

“Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren't developing technology for that purpose.”

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