Quotes About Progress

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.