21st Century Quotes - Page 17

• The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

  Peter Drucker

  Important, Knowledge Workers, Needs

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• With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Struggle, Believe, Creating

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• Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Climate, Century

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• The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers of the 21st century because we provide all the brain candy for the mouth-breathers, for lack of a better word.

  Chris Hardwick

  Drug, Nerd, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

  David Elkind

  Children, Play, Toys

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• IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

  Maureen Dowd

  Trying, Muzzle, Looks

  "Bishops Play Church Queens as Pawns" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2012.

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• From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

  Hillary Clinton

  History, Movement, Development

  "Clinton warns of 'uncharted territory' in wake of Egypt unrest" by Jill Dougherty, edition.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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• The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Creative, Cameras, Fantastic

  "Carlos Fuentes Trades His Pen for Television" by Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. December 31, 1990.

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• In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

  Beth Simone Noveck

  Technology, Use, Tools

  "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

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• The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

  Chris Burden

  Stress, Cities, Car

  "Metropolis II: A Kinetic Sculpture That Circulates 100,000 Miniature Cars Every Hour", www.thisiscolossal.com. March 3, 2014.

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• The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, India, Embrace

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• 21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Reality, India

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• The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

  Wesley J. Smith

  Simple, Profound, Doe

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• Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.

  Terry Tamminen

  Water, Greed, Desert

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• I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, Want, Isolation

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• So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I say hope in the sense that innovations in science and technology will be the engines of a 21st century economy and I don't want to go broke, as a nation. So, the hope I have is that, if people embrace it, we'll have a healthier, more secure, wealthier nation than we have.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Attitude, Technology, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Gun, Bridges

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• My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, Together, Arms

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1416, Best Books on

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• If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Effort, Peaceful

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• As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

  Jaron Lanier

  Powerful, Technology, Networking

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

  Jaron Lanier

  Self, People, Giving

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• I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.

  Vladimir Putin

  Honesty, Responsibility, Power

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

  William J. Clinton

  Track, Firsts, Blame

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1410, Best Books on

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• Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

  Greg Roberts

  Century, Illiteracy

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• Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

  Yochai Benkler

  Government, Pillars, Principles

  "How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2013.

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