Quotes About Progress

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

We see change as a challenge, not as a threat.

I don't know if people consider me a deep threat, but maybe I'll get there one day.

Change is no threat to culture.

I think my jump shot could get a lot, lot better. I could become a really big threat out there.

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

There is no greater threat to progress than the phrase, 'That's impossible.'

The main thing is I've tried to get better at everything - that includes the attacking side, being a threat, and taking people on.

Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there's also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing... things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that?

The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.

Britain was once notorious as the 'dirty man of Europe' with polluted air, raw sewage pumped into the sea and protected sites being lost at a terrifying rate. E.U. laws and the threat of fines changed much of that.

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.

During the 41 years that have elapsed since Costa Rica abolished its army, our fundamental freedoms have never been threatened, nor do we know a shameful history of repression.

Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.

People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion.

One thing I have figured out: People don't like different. People don't like to see anything different. When you see something different, you are either scared or afraid or you feel threatened. And I feel that the way I play the game, it feels like I should have played 50 years ago. But it's what I do.

Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.