Quotes About Progress

I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

We can learn from our past mistakes. But we're not allowed to ruin the now by beating ourselves up over the then.

Computers were once bigger than houses. When this was the case, abuse was virtually nonexistent. A current example is the large hadron collider. We certainly don't have to worry about one of these being misused, simply because there is only one of these.

don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III. But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." —Albert Einstein

But evolution never optimized. Once it found a solution good enough to ensure species survival, it was content.

I had taken German in high school, and I was truly horrible at it.

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer had famously expressed, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Douglas E. Richards

Schopenhauer quote so insightful. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

By just about every measure, America is better, and the world is better, than it was fifty years ago, thirty years ago, or even ten years ago.

Multinational pharmaceutical companies spend many billions of dollars a year on research, and often have very little to show for it.

Sure," she mumbled. "Shoving the bulk of your machinery into higher dimensions is a real space-saver. Everyone knows that.

The progress of your technology has been exponential. And the exponent itself has been growing.

The Rational Optimist: How

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. " —Arthur Schopenhauer

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

To allow for the varied learning rates of the children, the classes were combined into what were called "neighborhoods," where children of different ages would progress at their own rates. The early plans envisioned classrooms broken down into fairly narrow age ranges: kindergarten through second grade in one neighborhood, another sixth and seventh together, eighth and ninth in another, and tenth to twelfth grades together.

survival of the fittest"—which was first coined by the economist Herbert Spencer

Looking stupid is part of learning, let it happen.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

The march of history is that of the human race obeying the mantra of the motivational triad—attempting to attain more pleasure, for less pain, with ever-greater efficiency.

biggest roadblocks you encounter in life are the ones you construct for yourself.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.