Quotes About Progress

Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes.

Transcendence is transformation.

Cities are the graveyard of Mankind.

It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why

Maybe the Singularity happened years ago. We just don't want to admit we were left behind.

They're not post-Human. Not yet." "How can you tell?" It was only half a joke. "Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk to them at all.

The moved and the shaken.

Have a drink," he said. "Helps the future go down easier.

TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable, you

down had started to climb the walls.

Here in the dusk of the twenty-first century it was so easy to confuse murder with the amputation of a fingertip.

If we're so unfit, why haven't we gone extinct? Why? Because natural selection takes time, and luck plays a role. The game isn't over. The game is never over; and so, neither can there be any winners. There are only those who haven't yet lost.

The GA's new recruits have to be the slowest learners since the eradication of Down's syndrome.

What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots? But

Any race which can't rise above its own brutal instincts will wipe itself out long before it learns to bridge the interstellar gulf.

Technology implies belligerence.

En 1972, en el momento culminante de la revolución, Chile era el segundo país más igual de Sudamérica. Tres décadas después, era el segundo país más desigual en la región.

Modern ilmin ?üpheci ve kontrolcü zekas?, inanmad?klar?ndan evvel ?imdiye kadar inand?klar?ndan ?üphe etseydi, yirmi senede bir bilgisinin prensiplerini altüst eden ink?laplar kar??s?nda ?a??rmazd?.

Social movements are understood in relations to the openings they instigate in the political constellation of society as well as the closures that inevitably follow such openings.

When you compare the changing room to last season, there is a massive, massive difference. The changing room now is full of men.

We were very hopeful of getting Fraizer all the way through. We'll keep in-house what went on, but we were involved with Fraizer until the moment he went to Tottenham.

Those are the pictures you want from pre-season, so although we beat a Premiership side, I can take those away with me.