George W. Bush Quotes

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

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

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

When we speak about climate change, you're a victim of something ... which is happening with deep roots where you don't have - anything to deal with. And people just want to choose a life. That's very much important. And I think one of the key elements of the collective battle we have today, in order to fight against climate change is to provide people the ability to choose a life. To have a better life by behaving differently, by innovating, by creating new type of companies and startups, new type of activities.

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.

I can tell you what I am working on, which is being more cognizant of my actions and how they affect others, most I will never meet. I've begun with my purchases. I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five that are cheaper but made with GMO cotton, which is hard on Earth. It's caring a little more beyond myself. And I think it may be our only hope - and it feels much better to my soul, which in the end may be all we have.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend.

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.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

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

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

I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.