Quotes About Progress

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?

I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Healthcare is yet to be transformed by technology.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.