Quotes About Progress

And after that, there was only the ship, large and glistening; the cool production of 12,000 years of Imperial progress; and himself, with his doctorate in mathematics freshly obtained and an invitation from the great Hari Seldon to come to Trantor and join the vast and somewhat mysterious Seldon Project. What

commonly known as simply "The Foundation

Si todos los seres humanos comprendieran la Historia, podrían dejar de cometer los mismos estúpidos errores una y otra vez.

U istoriji ne postoje sre?ni završeci, postoje samo krizne ta?ke koje odu u prošlost.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

If the stars must someday die, at least some could yet be built.

We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done?

Isaac Asimov

In ogni secolo gli esseri umani hanno pensato di aver capito definitivamente l'Universo e, in ogni secolo, si è capito che avevano sbagliato. Da ciò segue che l'unica cosa che possiamo dire oggi sulle nostre conoscenze è che sono sbagliate.

It was a low point in history – but it was the end of nationalism. Earth was too small for nations and they began grouping themselves into Regions. It took quite a while. When I was born the United States of America was still a nation and not merely a part of the Northern Region. In fact, the name of the corporation is still "United States Robots—". And the change from nations to Regions, which has stabilized our economy and brought about what amounts to a Golden Age

Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

And then, when human beings arrive, the robots can be restored to more robotic schemes of behavior.

How small can you make the whole gadget?" "Hyper-relays can be had micro-size Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wiring Ã¢â'¬Â¦ chips—Space, you've got a few hundred circuits there.

Ah, the future good!" Leebig's eyes glowed with passion and he seemed to grow less conscious of his listener and correspondingly more talkative. "A simple concept, you think. How many human beings are willing to accept a trifling inconvenience for the sake of a large future good?

en la Historia no hay finales felices, solo momentos críticos que se superan.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment.

Los tiempos hacen al hombre

Algunos Eternos han llegado más allá del Siglo Ciento cincuenta mil. —¿Qué aspecto tiene? —Completamente distinto del actual. Hay muchas especies vivientes, pero ninguna humana. El Hombre ha desaparecido.

La religión es una de las grandes influencias civilizadoras de la historia

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

robot = máquina + computadora.

un verdadero robot fue imposible antes de la invención de la computadora en los años cuarenta, y no fue práctico (en el sentido de ser lo suficientemente compacto y lo bastante económico para aplicarlo al uso cotidiano) hasta la invención del microchip en los años setenta.

El siglo XVIII fue la edad de oro de los «autómatas».

nadie utilizó la palabra «robot» hasta 1920 (casualmente el año en que yo nací). Aquel año, un dramaturgo checo, Karel Capek, escribió la obra R.U.R., sobre un inglés, Rossum, que fabricaba seres humanos artificiales en cantidad. Éstos estaban destinados a realizar las labores arduas de la Tierra, de forma que los seres humanos reales pudiesen vivir placentera y confortablemente sus vidas.