Marc Newson Quotes

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.

The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing - something that requires innovation.

I think we have to pick up some sectors where we can make India the global hub in the entire value chain, and the most important sector to pick up should be electronics.

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

I think Irish people pride themselves on being at the forefront of technological industries, things like the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, all those hi-tech industries, we're always there or thereabouts.

We need people building companies all over the country to innovate in aviation, consumer products, education, health, cybersecurity, biotech, manufacturing, and everything in between.

Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology.

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.