Quotes About Progress

Quando a era do gelo terminou, muitas coisas da vida primitiva do planeta também haviam terminado— inclusive os homens-macaco. Mas estes, diferentes de outros animais, tinham deixado descendentes. Não haviam sido simplesmente extintos, mas sim transformados. Os criadores de instrumentos foram recriados por seus próprios instrumentos.

Lo que la naturaleza puede hacer, también el hombre lo hace, a su modo.

You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them—will never even be able to communicate with their minds.

Please move forward," the voice had interrupted.

Wydaje mi siÄ™, ?e jednÄ… z przyczyn, dla których uciekam w przyszÅ'o??, jest moja niecierpliwo??. ChcÄ™ ujrze? rezultaty tego, co zapoczÄ…tkowaÅ'eÅ›, ale jednoczeÅ›nie pragnÄ™ przeskoczy? etapy poÅ›rednie, które jak podejrzewam, nie bÄ™dÄ… przyjemne.

Arthur C. Clarke

I've come a billion miles - I don't want to be stopped by the last sixty

aquellos fenomenales victorianos que a veces hacen a uno preguntarse si la raza humana no se habrá deteriorado desde entonces.

The Man Who Ploughed the Sea First published in Satellite, June 1957 Collected in Tales from the White Hart This story was written in Miami, in 1954. Despite the lapse of time, many of the themes of this story are surprisingly up-to-date, and a few years ago I was amazed to read a description in a scientific journal of a ship-borne device to extract uranium from sea water! I sent a copy of the story to the inventors, and apologised for invalidating their patent.

When, taking all factors into account, anything can be proved to be impossible, that usually means that it will be done in some different manner and employing a new and unforeseen technique.

the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino.

But many generations had passed since anyone had had a use for a set of seven-figure logarithms, an atlas of the world, and the score of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony printed, according to the flyleaf, by H. K. Chu & Sons at the City of Pekin in the year AD 2021.

seem quaint and archaic.

A man may take one step ahead of his culture and chance being called a genius. But if he takes two steps, he is certain to be called a menace, a madman, a fool.

Humanity had lost its ancient gods: now it was old enough to have no need for new ones.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible

And just as Columbus's discoveries fixed the geography of Earth forever in human minds, so we learned the geography of the universe

once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

Clarke's Law—"any increasingly complex technology will look like magic"—signified the undertow which in the Age of Limbaugh

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

Anything is better than stagnation.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

My mind rebels at stagnation.