Quotes About 21st Century

#1. I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

Jesse Schell

#2. What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

Moby

#3. My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

Valerie Jarrett

#4. I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Bjork

#5. The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Jamais Cascio

#7. When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#8. The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow ... on how elections are won in the 21st century.

Douglas Alexander

#9. I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other economists, will tell you that right now, yes, we do need a 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation.

Hillary Clinton

#10. If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

Julian Baggini

#11. Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.

Scott Yanow

#12. I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress, though in other respects it seems to have been left behind in the race for 21st century development.

Shashi Tharoor

#13. By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.

Frank Tipler

#14. What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

DJ Spooky

#15. I think immigration system that we have is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.

Marco Rubio

#16. Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?

Sunday Adelaja

#17. I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges.

Lord Robertson

#18. all people were educated in this 21st century
though i'm unique then them,
because they were only educated and i'm..
weeducated..

p.s though haven't tried it yet. lol.

Weed Man

#19. Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

Jeremiah Wright

#21. The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak,

Jared Cohen

#22. Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

Mary Robinson

#23. I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#24. The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

Bjorn Lomborg

#25. The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

Rafael Correa

#26. As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.

Brandon Stanton

#27. We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

Jack Kemp

#28. The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

William J. Clinton

#29. The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

Phil Cooke

#30. It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#31. There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

Robert Nelson

#32. I am a child of the 21st century.

John Shelby Spong

#33. There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#34. I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.

Narendra Modi

#35. The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

Kedar Joshi

#36. Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

Li Keqiang

#37. Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.

Bernie Sanders

#38. 'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Russell Means

#39. In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

Kathleen Sebelius

#40. The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

Lester R. Brown

#41. The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

Cyrus Vance Jr.

#42. I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that.

Darren Shan

#43. The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Jennifer Granholm

#44. In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

William Gibson

#45. You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Tori Amos

#46. Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

Barack Obama

#47. I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Anne Stevenson

#48. This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.

Cass Sunstein

#49. Animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals it would be impossible, in many cases, to develop drugs or any sort of medical treatment.

George Radda

#50. The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

Cornel West

#51. Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#52. Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.

Richard Di Natale

#53. Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

James Morcan

#54. We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.

Marco Rubio

#55. Clear, crisp, and compelling ... Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.

David Wolpe

#56. When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

Donna Edwards

#57. At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.

William J. Clinton

#58. The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?

Eben Moglen

#59. Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

Martin O'Malley

#60. I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

Ednita Nazario

#61. In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

Estelle Morris

#62. No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

Douglas Coupland

#63. Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Frederick W. Smith

#64. Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

Kedar Joshi

#65. In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#66. I think that the 21st-century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual aspect in the global economic development has grown immensely. That's why we plan to concentrate on creating additional opportunities for our people to realise their potential.

Vladimir Putin

#67. The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together ... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

David Cameron

#68. That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

George W. Bush

#69. It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.

Harry Reid

#70. In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.

Leila Janah

#71. Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic's unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining desire to be desired looks more like a glamorous prophet, preparing the way for the Metrosexy 21st Century.

Mark Simpson

#72. For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.

Wolfgang Laib

#73. The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#74. In the 21st century, culture is power.

Park Geun-hye

#75. It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

Michelle Malkin

#76. India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

Rahul Gandhi

#77. I've already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.

Christine Quinn

#78. If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Chuck Hagel

#79. We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.

Michael Helm

#80. If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

Lara Stone

#81. The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

Narendra Modi

#82. I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

Bill Watterson

#83. The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

John Naisbitt

#84. The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.

Oscar Arias

#85. Do I wake up every day and thank God that I live in 21st-century Britain? Of course not. But from time to time, I recognise it as an unfathomable privilege.

Robert Webb

#86. We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

David Blunkett

#87. Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.

Robert Redford

#88. China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Steven Rattner

#89. I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

#90. Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

Yochai Benkler

#91. Who could have guessed at the dawn of the 21st century, the seminal technology upon which 5000 years of modern science had resulted was the click?

Ken Goldstein

#92. He cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

Philip Reeve

#93. The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#94. Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.

Frosty Wooldridge

#95. You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

Wayne Swan

#96. The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

Diana Butler Bass

#97. . In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe.

Matthew Reilly

#98. If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

David Hood

#99. We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

William J. Clinton

#100. The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

Warren Buffett