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Quotes About Progress

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.
~ Hari Sreenivasan
Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.
~ Paul Zane Pilzer
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
~ Shashi Tharoor
A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.
~ Chellis Glendinning
If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
~ Neil Armstrong
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
~ Clarence Thomas
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.
~ Rene Dubos
Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our technology forces us to live mythically
~ Marshall McLuhan
Technology is everything that doesn't work yet.
~ W. Daniel Hillis
Bio-technology is the science of the future.
~ Nita Ambani
Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
~ Alan Perlis
Technology is the gene uncorked.
~ Jon Jones
It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".
~ Vincent Massey
A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
~ Iqbal Quadir
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
~ Sydney Brenner
History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.
~ James Redfield
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
~ Bill Gates
Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.
~ Pete Cashmore
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
~ Bill Gates