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By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages. -- George Reisman
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. -- James Howard Kunstler
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. -- Alexander McQueen
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. -- Nikola Tesla
I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. -- Sarah Polley
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. -- Douglas Rushkoff
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. -- Noah Feldman
Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. -- Bill Ford
I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. -- Kevin Smith
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. -- Freeman Dyson
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac. -- Benigno Aquino III
In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!' -- William T. Vollmann
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. -- Nikola Tesla
Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well. -- Madison Smartt Bell
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. -- Freeman Dyson
What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again. -- Eric Liu
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers. -- Nancy Gibbs
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself. -- Martin Rees
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. -- Diane Wood
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth. -- Leonard Susskind
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look. -- James Gleick
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. -- Cynthia Heimel
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. -- George Lakoff
The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop. -- Joel Hodgson
The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. -- Ismail Serageldin
The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. -- Jonathan Sacks
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. -- Andre Malraux
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. -- Charles W. Pickering
To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. -- Chris Brogan
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. -- Mark Twain
I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel. -- Jane Green
I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team. -- Just Fontaine
Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. -- Jane McGonigal
Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. -- Angela Merkel
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. -- David Sedaris
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. -- Chuck Hagel
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. -- William Carey Jones
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. -- Robert Southey
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first. -- Carl Yastrzemski
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. -- Dalai Lama
If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history. -- M.F. Moonzajer
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. -- Haruki Murakami
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. -- Michael Connelly
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. -- David Levien
Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours... -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. -- Robert Hass
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. -- Phyllis Chesler
It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car. -- Janet Evanovich
The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years. -- Ingrid Bergman
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."("The Castle") -- Michael Connelly
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. -- Tania Bruguera
The first twenty years of my life were wasted...I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other. -- Rose Wilder Lane
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. -- Robert D. Kaplan
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. -- James Howard Kunstler
I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years. -- Thelma Houston
Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century. -- Oliver DeMille
The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop. -- Jeremy Lin
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. -- Sue Grafton
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. -- Walter Scott
Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book. -- Howard G. Hendricks
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile, -- Greg Bear
I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now. -- John Edensor Littlewood
Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously. -- E. J. W. Barber
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. -- Bill Ford
Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies. -- Roz Chast
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. -- Monica Baldwin
In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me. -- Rick Riordan
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it. -- Larry Niven
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth. -- Michael Martin Hammer
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent. -- Zygmunt Bauman
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly. -- David Sedaris
Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you. -- David Amerland
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. -- Ray Bradbury
We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities. -- Jewell Jackson McCabe
What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines? -- Matthew Crawford
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty. -- John Dryden
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century. -- Jack Kemp
I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store. -- Jessa Crispin
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life. -- Edward Gibbon
In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination? -- Martin Guevara Urbina
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. -- E. O. Wilson
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. -- E. O. Wilson
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. -- William J. Clinton
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America. -- Lady Gregory
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine. -- Walter Truett Anderson
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor). -- Alan Sokal
Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. -- Howard Rheingold
In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it's a good thing we're in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn't it? (Fang) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday) -- Carrie Mae Weems
You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat? -- Jennifer Crusie
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power. -- Eric Schlosser
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age. -- Walter Isaacson
Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does. -- Larissa Ione
In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures. -- Paul K. Chappell
Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people. -- Rajiv Gandhi
The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagonizes, not caring about the effects on neighboring regions. -- Tariq Ali
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens. -- William J. Clinton
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense. -- Evgeny Morozov
Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is. -- George Porter

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