But as environment minister I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

Computers like automobiles and airplanes do only what people tell them to do.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Today most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age with mobile phones tablets the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work communication and entertainment.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations the automobile.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

The automobile both a cause and an effect of this decentralization is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

I would never kill a living thing although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

The automobile engine will come and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

A business like an automobile has to be driven in order to get results.

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.