21st Century Quotes - Page 2

• Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

  Ron Kind

  Creativity, Technology, Innovation

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Taught Us, Evil, World

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• I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Home, Opportunity

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1411, Best Books on

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• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

  Frances O'Grady

  Attitude, People, Needs

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• Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

  David Plotz

  Thinking, Loser, Winner

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.

  Eboo Patel

  People, Cooperation, Conflict

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• Innovation has stalled in the banking industry. While the rest of the world is in the digital age, banking remains stagnant. We are here to change this and bring banking to the 21st century. We will ensure our customers feel involved in the progress of this bank and are offering them a truly enjoyable banking experience – different from anything they have experienced before.

  Jay Sidhu

  Offering, Innovation, Age

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• We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Excellence, World

  Boston Globe, November 16, 2005.

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• Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Law

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Smart, Average, Problem

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• Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

  Jamais Cascio

  Keys, Everyday, May

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• We need 21st century programs. We have to change the dynamic because the world - we're not in the Industrial Revolution anymore, where you could leave high school, go work at the town factory for 50 years, and retire with a pension.

  Marco Rubio

  School, Years, Towns

  "Closing the Gap: Sen. Marco Rubio on how more education, fewer broken families can change income inequality". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014.

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• The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

  Jamais Cascio

  Strong, Thinking, Long

  "SXSW: Futurist Jamais Cascio Sees GOP Filters, Alt Energy". Interview with Lewis Wallace, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

  Kedar Joshi

  Matter, Physics, Mechanic

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• The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Technology, Way

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• The 21st century looks different. It's been very disruptive. It has created a lot of insecurity. We have to adjust to that, because the 21st century has real promise. Now, the higher-paying jobs of this new century are fantastic. The problem is, you have to have some level of higher education, maybe not a four-year degree, but some level of higher education, to get those jobs.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Real, Years

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• The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Simple, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

  William J. Clinton

  Islands, Years, Slave Ships

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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• I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

  Lev Grossman

  Thinking, Firsts, Strange

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• In the 21st century, culture is power.

  Park Geun-hye

  Culture, Century

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• You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Years

  "The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.

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• I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Technology, Innovation

  "Steve Jobs’s Dying Realization About Biology and Technology" by Luke Timmerman, www.xconomy.com. December 5, 2011.

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• It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Artist, Play, Opinion

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