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Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs. -- Erik Brynjolfsson
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future. -- Jay Inslee
The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse. -- Jeff Greene
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. -- Gene Luen Yang
We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy. -- Luis Fortuno
At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. -- Steven Levitan
Although designers continue to dream of 'transparency' - technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt - both creators and audiences actually like technologies with 'personality.' -- Brian Eno
Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. -- Brian Eno
For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology. -- Padmasree Warrior
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. -- John F. Kerry
You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is. -- Vinod Khosla
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. -- Steve Jobs
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. -- Steve Jobs
The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. -- Steve Jobs
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. -- Steve Jobs
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. -- Steve Jobs
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. -- Steve Jobs
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. -- Steve Jobs
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. -- Steve Jobs
So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. -- Steve Jobs
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. -- Erik Brynjolfsson
I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business. -- Hillary Clinton
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better. -- John Kasich
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs? -- Louis O. Kelso
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them. -- Margaret Thatcher
Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology. -- William H. Calvin
Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans. -- Al Franken
Steve Jobs was not only the heart and soul of Apple, he was the wind underneath the technology market. Both are significantly diminished by his passing. -- Rob Enderle
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. -- William J. Clinton
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. -- Bill Gates
Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed. -- Steve Largent

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