Thomas Friedman (1953) American journalist and author
Meet the Press, September 25, 2005
"The next … months" in Iraq
On his program to purchase iBook computers for Maine public schools, as quoted in "Maine Students Hit the iBooks" by Katie Dean in WIRED (9 January 2002) https://archive.is/20130630155629/www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/01/49046
Thomas Friedman (1953) American journalist and author
Meet the Press, September 25, 2005
"The next … months" in Iraq
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1990s and later, Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), p. 295
Larry Ellison (1944) American internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist
Statement in 1999, as quoted in "Oracle's Talking: Should You Be Listening?" by Jeff Sweat in Information Week (7 February 2000) http://www.informationweek.com/772/oracle.html.
“I think it's absolutely touch-and-go whether we're going to make it.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
Context: I think it's absolutely touch-and-go whether we're going to make it. But the point is, for me to tell you that you have an option is not to be optimistic... Time and again, of course I am running into millions who don't know we have the option, because it's invisible, and I feel I have tremendous responsibility. So when people ask me to come and talk to them, I do my best to let them know they do have the option. Of course they're pessimistic, not knowing that.
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Biden reacts to leaked draft Supreme Court opinion on abortion https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-reacts-leaked-draft-supreme-court-opinion-abortion/story?id=84467397 <br class="br">2022, May 2022
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
1990s, Schafer interview (1995)
Context: I was one of the first generations to watch television. That's technology. TV is like any other kind of tool. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? Computers are going to be even bigger. TVs are one-way. You sit there and you watch it. Computers, you interact with.
“We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.”
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
Attributed
Brian R. Gaines (1938) British computer scientist
Last paragraph
Convergence to the Information Highway (1996)
“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Manitoba: Clandeboye, p. 168.
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There