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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Technology

"All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material."

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Douglas Alexander Politician
Technology

"It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised."

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Al Gore Politician
Technology

"We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Technology

"If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Technology

"Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Technology

"The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Technology

"I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Technology

"Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
Technology

"Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know, recording studios are booked all the time. So obviously people like all the improvements. The more technically advanced they are, the more in demand they become."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Technology

"Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Technology

"Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that."

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Brian Thompson Biologist
Technology

"It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology."

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will.i.am Musician, Producer
Technology

"We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Technology

"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."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Technology

"Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure."

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