Quotes About Progress

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

When people put effort in life, it's more beautiful. But it doesn't come naturally to me.

The world is always in movement.

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty, truth, love, grief, the search for meaning, and the struggle with our own mortality—are ignored and ridiculed.

Many ideas, once held to be true, have come to be regarded as wrong and evil," Berkman wrote. Thus the ideas of the divine right of kings, of slavery and serfdom. There was a time when the whole world believed those institutions to be right, just, and unchangeable.

There is a familiar checklist for extinction. We are ticking off every item on it.

In the age of AI, it's often said that data is the new oil. Yet the real limitation we face isn't the availability of data but of processing power.

The Dutch company ASML builds 100 percent of the world's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, without which cutting-edge chips are simply impossible to make. OPEC's 40 percent share of world oil production looks unimpressive by comparison

A facility to fabricate the most advanced logic chips costs twice as much as an aircraft carrier but will only be cutting-edge for a couple of years.

We're not running out of atoms," Keller has said. "We know how to print single layers of atoms.

Many Russians had supported macroeconomic stabilization because they believed it was a necessary foundation for economic progress. Kudrin counseled continued caution. But many Russians believed that, because the country had sorted out its finances, it was time to reap the benefits of growth.

Last year, the chip industry produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history. Nothing else comes close.

Conway and Mead

Helping companies and professors keep Moore's Law alive, DARPA reasoned, was crucial to America's military edge.

built by alumni of these DARPA- and SRC-funded programs.

We rarely think about chips, yet they've created the modern world.

produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history. Nothing else comes close.

Most of the world's GDP is produced with devices that rely on semiconductors. For a product that didn't exist seventy-five years ago, this is an extraordinary

TSMC builds almost all the world's most advanced processor chips.

Advanced microelectronics and a set of wings strapped to a bomb had transformed the nature of military power.