John Naisbitt Quotes
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
Quotes to Explore
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
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If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.
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Freedom and power bring responsibility.
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Therefore, everything seen – every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it – is a Duchamp. Turn it over and it is.
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Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
