Quotes About Progress

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

Sun is seeking some products that we don't have or technologies that we don't have.

Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.

Markets - on their own - will not make investments in the technologies and infrastructure that would benefit an entire industry.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

As the world has changed through globalisation and technology, it has left many feeling left behind.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

In this era of globalisation, I believe that the only way to push the Philippines forward is to focus our energy on improving English, mathematics, science, and technology.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.

The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.