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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. -- Oriana Fallaci
We are so reliant on power and technology for everything. -- Billy Burke
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people. -- Mark McKinnon
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult. -- Naoto Kan
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines. -- Ban Ki-moon
A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that. -- Laurie Anderson
When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles. -- Jason Silva
How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure. -- Dana Brunetti
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology. -- Ahmed Zewail
In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being. -- John Sexton
The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising. -- Megan Smith
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say. -- Jonathan Sacks
The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have. -- Eric Balfour
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. -- Pope Paul VI
Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control. -- Peter Thiel
Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide. -- Hank Johnson
I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy. -- Brian Lamb
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
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability. -- Samantha Power
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. -- Ken Rockwell
Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology. -- Mal Fletcher
Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms. -- Narendra Modi
When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content. -- Kevin Lynch
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. -- Cory Doctorow
Technology has a critical role in realizing the vision of a Digital India - the power of 125 crore connected Indians. -- Narendra Modi
Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance. -- Narendra Modi
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect. -- Tom Peters
Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent. -- Christopher John Farley
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need. -- Barry Commoner
Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals. -- George Friedman
Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture. -- George Friedman
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market. -- Robert Reich
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. -- David Bohm
Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks. -- John Cage

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