Quotes About Progress

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

Many more Mondays, many more games.

That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next. Gray

this sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really.

Research today has become more about seeing if something can be done versus judging if it should. It's knowledge for the sake of knowledge, regardless of the impact on the world.

The old adage "necessity is the mother of all invention" remains as true today as it did back in 3500 B.C.

Remember, child, life is not a straight line. It cycles.

Just go look. That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next.

He knew he probably sounded like an idiot to the scholars, but sometimes an idiot's perspective ended up getting more things done.

morality is often the first casualty to progress.

cutting edge.

the pace of our ability to read and write DNA increases tenfold every year.

This process—called "machine learning"—was the core method by which AIs taught themselves.

The Great Stagnation

Look, Mom." He pointed to a desk in the corner of his room. "A real Pentium II. Not one of those slowpoke clones.

the pursuit of knowledge is never for naught. Each line drawn on a map gets us closer to understanding the world and our place in it.

continued working on their joint project in the States, while she did

thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven. Today the average is seventy-eight. So, in the past hundred years, we more than doubled life expectancy. That

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke, 1962, from his essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination

He counted his steps. That was how you got through tough things. You counted. Once you said, "one," then you knew "two" was coming, and "three" right after that.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.