Quotes About Progress

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

Every action and decision we take – or don't – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

I don't believe [Africa] is ready to shift - and she needs to shift. So she needs to get the technology and she can only get that technology from the developed world.

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.