Quotes About Progress

Those were big years, big times.

How cruel that mankind was forced to conform to the global electronic experience. But all other options had vanished. There no longer existed a country to escape to ("country"—also, what a quaint notion) where people read books and had lives that became stories.

I've always been interested in the unintended side effects of technology. For instance, when the car was invented, who would have thought dogs would like sticking their heads out the window to enjoy the scentscape generated by speed and wind?

Once you've used your brain flat-out, you can't go into the SLOW mode. You can't drive an Infinite J-3B and then get downgraded to an Daewoo. Brains don't workd that way.

This document was created in Microsoft Word, which in the year 2014 is pathetic.

Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?

Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.

I am now [email protected]. @ could become the Mc or Mac of the next millennium.

We lost handwriting and got Comic Sans in return. That's a very bad deal.

frontier spectators

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.

No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.

New York City had a short memory for violence

Lead me into all misfortune. Only by that path can I transform the negative into the positive.

She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on—let's see here—June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother.

She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on—let's see here—June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother. Mrs. Archibald was under the impression that Jennie's first sign had been directed at her. I didn't correct that misapprehension. Why? I should suppose the reason's obvious.

artificial intelligence.

in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa. don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. i do not believe it. it's true, sally said defiantly. in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?

This discovery will draw us closer to the day when humanity can cast aside its evil ways and eventually join the galactic civilization.

Don't live in the past—you will know what you've lost but not what you've found?

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over. No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.

The people of Honduras don't have a clear cultural identity. We have to start learning more about our past in order to create a brighter future.

drug is going to end warfare as we know it." "That's what Alfred Nobel said when he invented dynamite.

they develop slowly, beneath the surface—like a subcutaneous abscess.