Quotes About Progress

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from doubletalk.

They introduce some new technology and no matter how much good it does for most people, there's always a crazy son of a bitch who'll find something twisted to do with it.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life," von Neumann explained to Stan Ulam, "gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race.

Billions of dollars were sunk into cables spanning six continents and three oceans, and a web of optical fiber engulfed the world. When the operation peaked in 1991, fiber was being rolled out, globally, at over 5,000 miles per hour, or nine times the speed of sound: Mach 9.

The survival of the fittest is a slow method for measuring advantages," Turing argued in 1950. "The experimenter, by the exercise of intelligence, should be able to speed it up.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.

The wheels of government go on, though wound up by different hands.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day:Time's noblest offspring is the last.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

My reputation grows with every failure.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.