Quotes About Progress

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

We will use political power as a tool to improve the lives of the people.

I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.