What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Today the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes all of us are at risk.

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle an overnight increase in gold reserves a new oil field or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

Roman civilization had achieved within the bounds of its technology relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Today's stock market actually hates technology as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.

In today's knowledge-based economy what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector for example pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice instead of what we have today a voice network struggling to carry data.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.