Quotes About Progress

I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.

By focusing on R&D, companies in the renewable sector can move beyond the technological limitations of today.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

I would think the correlation between an era of increased globalization and an increased desire to participate in an entrepreneurial endeavor is not a coincidence. When interconnectedness is at a peak due to technological advances, the ability to spawn something new is slightly easier.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in what we've accomplished engineering-wise but what we've accomplished on this international scale, because anybody will tell you that half the challenge is making it all work.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.