N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality

Never bet against science!

… increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.