Quotes About Innovation

According to him, microscopic robots, or nanobots, will circulate in our blood and "destroy pathogens, correct DNA errors, eliminate toxins, and perform many other tasks to enhance our physical well-being.

En algún momento debemos esperar que las máquinas tomen el control. ALAN TURING

If each of them creates another thousand robots, then we have a million. Then a billion. Then a trillion. In just a few generations, we can have an expanding sphere containing quadrillions of these devices, which scientists call von Neumann machines.

It would take them only five seconds to zip to the moon, about an hour and a half to get to Mars, and a few days to reach Pluto. Rather than waiting ten years for a mission to the outer planets, we could receive new information about them from nanoships in a matter of days, and in this way we could observe the developments in the solar system very nearly in real time.

In 2016, the field of artificial intelligence was electrified by the news that AlphaGo, DeepMind's computer program, had beat Lee Sedol, the world champion of the ancient game of Go.

In 2013, the International Academy of Astronautics issued a 350-page report projecting that with enough funding and research, a space elevator capable of carrying multiple twenty-ton payloads might be possible by 2035. Price estimates usually range from $10 billion to $50 billion—a fraction of the $150 billion that went into the International Space Station.

historians believe that the telescope ranks as perhaps the most seditious instrument ever introduced in the history of science because it challenged the powers that be and forever altered our relationship with the world around us.

When Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born in 1978, the technology that made it possible was denounced by many clergymen and columnists, who believed that we were playing God. Today there are more than five million test tube babies in the world; your spouse or best friend may be one.

The right idea at the right time is like a dandelion...You may hack it down, but you only spread the seeds abroad.

pitching deck of an icebreaker.

If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

About the only valid definition (of science fiction) that I'm willing to accept is this: all of modern, mainstream, and realistic fiction is simply a branch, a category, or a subset of science fiction.

L'Homme a arrêté son évolution après avoir inventé la roue et l'air climatisé.

El pensamiento científico es tal vez el mejor método disponible para avanzar a través de territorios impredecibles, desconocidos y complejos, porque nos hace más adaptables y creativos frente a la incertidumbre.

The game of science is, in principle, without end.

Un flujo pieza a pieza al menor coste posible.» Tal como hemos visto en el capítulo 3, esta visión no procede de Toyota ni de Japón, y ya ha sido perseguida desde hace unos cuantos cientos de años. ¿Por qué no adoptar esta visión de la producción ampliamente reconocida y ponerse en marcha?

A través del ajuste de lo que se aprende a lo largo del camino, Toyota avanza como lo haría un científico. Con cada nueva constatación empírica, el científico ajusta el rumbo para aprovecharse de lo que ha aprendido. Aprendo cada día lo que necesito saber para hacer el trabajo de mañana. Explicación del historiador ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE relativa a su alta productividad Nada en el horizonte puede tener una

definición fija. Cada paso que damos altera el horizonte, modifica el campo de visión, haciendo que veamos como algo bastante diferente lo que hasta entonces habíamos visto de forma restringida. JAMES P. CARSE, profesor emérito, Universidad de Nueva York Los planes son cosas que cambian FUJIO CHO, presidente de Toyota Motor Corporation

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

Cehalet, boÅŸ inançlar gibi sanayinin de anas?d?r. DüÅŸünce ve hayal gücü insan? hataya sürükleyebilir; ama ayak ya da eli hareket ettirme al??kanl??? bunlardan ne birini ne diÄŸerini gerektirir. Dolay?s?yla manifaktürler, en büyük geliÅŸme olanaklar?na, akla en az baÅŸvurulan yerlerde kavuÅŸur." Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

Ah, professor, if only you had discovered a way of rejuvenating hair!" Chapter 2

Druga ?wie?o?? to nonsens! ?wie?o?? bywa tylko jedna - pierwsza, i tym razem ostatnia.

Art arises from sources other than logic. (p.32)