Technocratic Quotes

#1. Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Bill Gates

#2. It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

Leon Kass

#3. Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

Phillip Lopate

#4. If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

John Ralston Saul

#5. More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

Michel De Certeau

#6. The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

Martin Filler

#7. Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

Arundhati Roy

#8. First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

Astra Taylor

#9. Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

Vandana Shiva

#10. It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

Pat Cash

#11. You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

Sam Worthington

#12. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

James A. Baldwin

#13. People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#14. Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

Alistair Begg

#15. Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness.

Michael R. Fletcher

#16. Firing the sunset gun

Walker Percy

#17. What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.

Gavriel David Rosenfeld

#18. I love acting, but I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.

Vanessa Hudgens

#19. If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. On the most Scottish thing he'd ever seen: I was going through a town called Bathgate at around 11 o'clock at night. And there was a guy leaning and pissing against a front door. He then took out his keys and went inside.

Frankie Boyle