Donna Strickland Quotes

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

Apple is always focused on out-innovating itself... and that is something I am very proud to be a part of.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before lasers were discovered. The ideas were all there; just, nobody put it together.

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE.

Innovation is the answer to most problems including energy.

McMaster had an engineering physics program and... one of the parts of it was lasers and electro-optics and I just said, 'Now doesn't that sound cool. I just got to do that.'

We need to be at the forefront of technological development again.

Games are a media that relies on technology to be innovative and forward thinking and interesting. Personally, I love being at that forefront when something new comes out.

I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is a design statement, an engineering marvel, and something that really redefines tomorrow.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.