Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

Congress commissioned the first telegraph line, the railroads, the Internet. The role of the government in developing new technology is often misunderstood.

We will always work on technologies that are required in our market, which is India.

We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.