Bill Clinton Quotes

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

Transformation in the nature of work tend to brings wrenching social changes in their wake.

This is a new time, a new age. We are living now!

… post-industrial society

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

We are out to rebuild the world.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

Unlike the 19th century, when real estate and government bonds were the primary form of capital, it is riskier assets that generate most of the wealth in the modern global economy — assets that can more quickly lose value as a result of changes in technology or global competition.

Abroad, technological change will create even more disruption as the wave of acceleration engulfs societies that have not yet come to terms with the social demands of industrialization, let alone more recent technological change. Mass disorientation can become the source of both national aggression and non-state terrorism—aggression and terrorism made all the more devastating by access to weapons that are not only increasingly powerful but also deployable by ever smaller groups.

This is the age of disruption.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

It is a free world. It is a dynamic of our new day and age: technology is everywhere.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of glucose biscuits in my village is now selling cellphones.