Quotes About Progress

We have not been asking the serious questions about the future of our species, questions sci-fi regularly explores by showing us the best and worst of what could be.

In order to have a decent chance to be a communicating species, you would have to learn to think and plan and act over time scales of a century or a millennium.

Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

Mars would seem, to me, to be the best place to focus our collective effort as a species... I think people would like to experience something sort of hopeful in terms of where we go next... as a species.

It's amazing to see how if we don't open our minds to something different, we wont evolve as a species.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

Some kind of correction will always happen. But it depends on the specific companies.

Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that's the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term.

Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vision. It changes daily, or it's always evolving.

People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it.

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

I think that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the game.

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.

I think T20 cricket has become the flagship spectacle for women's cricket.

Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we'd be looking at a spectacular car today.

In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference.

Every two and a half years, every spectrum crisis has gotten solved, and that's going to keep happening.

Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.