Quotes About Progress

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.

To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!

We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software.

A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper. They doubled in capability every 18 months under Moore's law.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Solar energy is bound to be in our future. There's a kind of inevitability about it.

Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment. Nothing else - not coal, not solar, not geo-engineering - can do that.

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

There's no question that Nevada has overwhelmingly benefited from the rise of solar energy technology.

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science fiction many, many times: bases on the moon, Mars colonized, move out to the outer planets, then we go to the next solar system and build a colony there. I don't know now - I'm not as convinced that's the way it's going to pan out.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.

What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.

I felt like I plateaued at playing drums, like I wasn't getting any better. I bought an electric pair of drums, sold my drum set, and got introduced to making beats.

By the time I sold Birmingham City football club in 2009, 75% of the directors were women, which I take great pride in - that's unique in business, full stop.

While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.