Richard Lamm Quotes

As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.

I aim to be a competitive nation.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality

The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.

I believe engineers will save the world.

Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be ahead of China when it comes to knowledge. Not that the Chinese are far behind. They will get there. But our challenge is to invest sufficiently in education.

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.