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Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. -- Bill Gates
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress. -- Peter Diamandis
Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.' -- Martha Stewart
You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking. -- Werner Herzog
The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone. -- Matt Groening
Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past. -- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones. -- Peter Diamandis
Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example. -- John Battelle
I'm a big advocate of drones. -- Robert M. Gates
What happens if a drone falls right next to her? -- Kanye West
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone. -- Ray Davies
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. -- Chuck Palahniuk
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline. -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring. -- Brian Eno
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. -- Plato
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' -- John Fugelsang
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire. -- Justin Sane
The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class. -- William H. Whyte
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant. -- Charles Frazier
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations. -- Noam Chomsky
The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness. -- Alice Walker
The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color. -- Ron Paul
Looking more deeply at the emergence of ISIS or the chaos that exists in Syria, Yemen and Libya would clearly raise crucial doubts about reliance on military intervention and drone warfare as adequate counterterrorist responses and would call attention to the detrimental effects of US "special relationships" with Israel and Saudi Arabia. -- Richard A. Falk
You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA five years ago, didn't we? We told them about indefinite detention. We told them you can't come after the internet, that's unconstitutional. You can't do warrantless searches, that's unconstitutional. -- Matt Shea
In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering. -- Jeff Lindsay
What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.' -- P. W. Singer
I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court, -- Rand Paul
I think drones are a good tool to go after high-valued targets. -- Michael McCaul
Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles. -- Peter Diamandis
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost. -- John Dryden
The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people. -- Noam Chomsky
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review. -- Cornel West
Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes. -- Richard Engel
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia. -- Richard Engel
It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers. -- Alexandra Robbins
We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better. -- Vishal Sikka
If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind. -- Gabrielle Union
I was taken off from plane and interrogated by U.S. Immigration in Canada on my views on drones. My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop, -- Imran Khan
And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war. -- Gavin Hood
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes. -- Cornel West
You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important. -- Vladimir Putin
What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone. -- Tina Brown
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. -- Eduardo Galeano
When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: "drones." -- Medea Benjamin
Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the Department of Defense. -- John McCain
If paparazzi armed with telephoto lenses have long been the scourge of the rich and famous; civilian drones are fast becoming the new menace to the ordinary man on the street. -- Alex Morritt
In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication. -- Thomas Hood
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas Kristof
In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center. -- Heather Brooke
My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it. -- Robert Baer
It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks. -- Andrew Niccol
If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else. -- Peter Diamandis
We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.We let the stars shine into us. -- David Almond

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