Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Reed Hastings

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• The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Disney

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• This is unproven technology, and if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't interact with tokens - from an investor and security perspective.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Technology
  • Perspective

• I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Professional

• There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Technology
  • Opinion
  • Emotional

• Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Technology

• India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • High
  • Technology
  • Demand

• 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Technology

• I've never been a great one for technology.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Never

• I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Security

• Once again, we've seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. This is an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Paris

• The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• ...new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces-all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally.

  

  Amory Lovins
  • True
  • Die
  • Technology

• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Technology

• To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Humanity

• Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • High
  • Future
  • Technology

• A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're going to disrupt everything,' ignores some realities.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Technology
  • Financial

• After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

  

  Chuck D
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Boat

• I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Hurt

• It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Time
  • Good
  • Respect

• When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Epic