These cutting edge quotes will inspire you. Cutting Edge, the edge of a tool’s blade or the latest or most advanced stage in the development of something.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging cutting edge quotes, cutting edge sayings, and cutting edge proverbs.
Best Cutting Edge Quotes
- “The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” ~ Diane Arbus
- “The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” ~ Jacob Bronowski
- “The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.” ~ John Spencer
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“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.” ~ Jacob Bronowski
- “I think when you’re doing something cutting edge like ‘The Matrix,’ it might mean when everybody’s saying ‘no’ that you’re really on the right track.” ~ Lorenzo di Bonaventura
- “I’m a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.” ~ Geraldine Ferraro
- “Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.” ~ M. Scott Peck
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“I want to be cutting-edge.” ~ Missy Elliot
- “To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it’s actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.” ~ Mario Batali
- “In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.” ~ Sloane Crosley
- “In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It’s like group therapy.” ~ Sloane Crosley
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“We’re traditional and don’t do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we’re holding our own.” ~ Jaclyn Smith
- “The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.” ~ Michael Oxley
- “The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.” ~ Robert Harris , Cutting Edge quotes technology
- “Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We’re out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.” ~ Hilary Rosen
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“Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.” ~ Henry Ford
- “Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.” ~ Phyllis Schlafly
- “The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.” ~ Edward R. Murrow
- “There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can’t be the cutting edge for change.” ~ Jennifer Granholm
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“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.” ~ M. Scott Peck
- “Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They’re the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.” ~ Bill Gates
- “If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.” ~ Barack Obama
- “It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.” ~ M. Scott Peck
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“The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.” ~ Terence McKenna
- “There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.” ~ Harvey Mackay
- “The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig
- “Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let’s use the spoon. I like to consider myself the big bowl-like area of the spoon that holds all the stuff you like.” ~ Brian Regan
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“What’s the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.” ~ Nicholas Negroponte
- “The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.” ~ Ferran Adria
- “Just selfishly, I wanted to be associated with something as synonymous with cool and cutting edge and artistic as CBGB. People are aware of that, at least, even if nothing else. That’s something to be proud of, to be a small part of the association with something like that.” ~ Johnny Galecki
- “I’d bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them – gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn’t relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said “Yuck,” then there probably wouldn’t have been anywhere for us to go.” ~ Richard Gere
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“Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.” ~ Arianna Huffington
- “We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world’s resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.” ~ Salman Rushdie
- “You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.” ~ Terence McKenna
- “It’s so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.” ~ Lynn Samuels
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“American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh” ~ Ed Rendell
- “Any topical subject, if it’s Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you’ve got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you’re never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.” ~ George Clooney
- “Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.” ~ Ken Livingstone
- “The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.” ~ Calvin Cheng
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“Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.” ~ Alexander McCall Smith
- “John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.” ~ Tim Willits
- “I’m completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It’s the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.” ~ Moshe Safdie
- “It feels like we’ve grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed along with it, so we’re pushing all the envelopes we can at the same time and it still feels like cutting edge work to us. It seems to resonate with people.” ~ Bent Saether
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“Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems … create our courage and wisdom.” ~ M. Scott Peck
- “Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them.” ~ Bernie Sanders
- “Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not. For me, it is really exciting to take the cutting edge technology and take it as far as it can get virtually, use it to describe/control the musicology or the behavior of raw natural elements, and then plug it with a sound source which is the most acoustic one there is – like gamelan and pipe organ. So you get the extremes: very virtual and very physical. In that way you shift the physicality.” ~ Bjork
- “Electronic technology has been a part of music making and music listening for a century. We always treat it like it’s new, and cutting edge, but it’s actually omnipresent, so we should just treat it as part of the arsenal today.” ~ Vijay Iyer
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“I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don’t really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.” ~ Doseone
- “I am terminally curious, so I tend to be attracted to the shiny. That’s a mixed blessing, as sometimes it means that I can end up right on the cutting edge, but sometimes it can result in wild goose chases as well. Either way, it makes life interesting!” ~ Suw Charman-Anderson
- “Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.” ~ Manning Marable
- “Not only I would like to work as the youngest technology evangelist at Microsoft, I would like to work on those cutting-edge technologies which would be explored by technology evangelists five years from now.” ~ Arfa Karim
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“Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge of personal interaction around the world.” ~ Helen Zille
- “I’ve always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You’re dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there’s bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can’t be too unreasonable, because that’s everybody else’s role.” ~ John Lydon
- “There’s nothing cutting edge about what I’m trying to do. I’m not creating a new sound. I’m not like Bjork, who’s an alien from another world. I’m of the earth. You could extract any measure of music out of anything I’ve ever done and you could find its affiliations in music history.” ~ Sufjan Stevens
- “Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.” ~ Herb Caen
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“Cutting edges are always a little rough.” ~ Rosalie Maggio
- “A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .” ~ James Rollins
- “Everybody’s creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.” ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
- “I saw the ‘Popstars’ programme and to me it looked more like ‘Opportunity Knocks’ than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it’s more about is the public and the music industry’s bloodlust. It’s just like someone itching to say ‘Oh, confound it all, let’s bring back hanging, that was good entertainment’.” ~ Luke Haines
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“The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished.” ~ Ron Kaufman
- “Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.” ~ Norman Foster
- “Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can’t do that unless you’re constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.” ~ Krafft Arnold Ehricke
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“You can’t do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.” ~ Brian Eno
- “You really feel like you’re on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn’t exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don’t work on 3-D because they’re all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we’ve literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.” ~ Paul W. S. Anderson
