Quotes About Progress

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.