Bill Clinton Quotes

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

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

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

We talk a lot about building benevolent technology. Our technology reflects our values.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

I think it's the responsibility of people in tech to find solutions.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

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.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.