Quotes About Progress

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Technology alone is not enough.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Technology will have moved on to an unimaginable level in ten years.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.