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		Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.
	
	  Erik Brynjolfsson Erik Brynjolfsson
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		Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.
	
	  Lester Holt Lester Holt
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		One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
	
	  Samuel Wilson Samuel Wilson
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		Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
	
	  Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
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		We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.
	
	  Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu
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		In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
	
	  Jim Lee Jim Lee
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		It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.
	
	  Ben Goertzel Ben Goertzel
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		If you say interesting stuff on twitter, people will follow you there. I think Jim Caruso, from MediaFirst, does this well. He’s been at every single technology event I’ve ever attended in Atlanta for the last 10 years. He knows what’s going on. He’s a technology geek at heart... And he’s on twitter, tweeting about local startups, global technology news, and of course, his own clients. I follow him on twitter.
	
	  Ben Chestnut Ben Chestnut
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		My best advice came by examples. A supportive environment at home, school, and grad school. Support at the New York Institute of Technology, then George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bob Iger. The examples meant that I should support other people, even when things aren't going well. It will pay off.
	
	  Ed Catmull Ed Catmull
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		The experiences that technology provides is very, very important, rather than just the backroom aspects of running things. It's just as important to focus on the consumer interface and how we're experiencing things.
	
	  Gary Shapiro Gary Shapiro
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		The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
	
	  Niklas Zennstrom Niklas Zennstrom
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		The exciting thing about the current emergence of bitcoin 2.0 applications is that you don't have to know anything about bitcoin or how the blockchain works to get a lot of utility and value out of the technology.
	
	  Meltem Demirors Meltem Demirors
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		Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
	
	  Mitchel Resnick Mitchel Resnick
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		The Calandra Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, the library at Lincoln Center, and the Fashion Institute of Technology were helpful and key to piecing together what life must have been like at the turn of the last century.
	
	  Adriana Trigiani Adriana Trigiani
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		I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?
	
	  Angela Ahrendts Angela Ahrendts
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		For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
	
	  Richard Feynman Richard Feynman
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		Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.
	
	  Aileen Lee Aileen Lee
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		On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better electronic health records, more inter-operability amongst various types of electronic systems and cybersecurity is becoming a huge deal in in health care. Health care records are highly sought after by virtue of the fact that not only do you have somebody's person financial information, you also have their person medical information.
	
	  Maria Bartiromo Maria Bartiromo