Quotes About Progress

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

Less effort in this game makes more results.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result. Conjectures are of great importance since they suggest useful lines of research.

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, My little computer said such a funny thing this morning. ~ Alan Turing

Ritardo ce ne sarà per forza, a causa di intoppi praticamente inevitabili, perché fino a un certo punto è meglio lasciare che ci siano intoppi piuttosto che spendere tempo sul progetto per essere sicuri che non ce ne siano (chissà quanti anni occorrerebbero per questa strada).

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

Many lives and limbs have been lost, McCandless, by excluding women from the more intricate medical arts.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

The first six million years had been all fun and games.

Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Nothing happens until something moves.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.