Quotes About Progress

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty.... This is our modern danger ... it may cause our civilization to fall unless we act quickly to counteract it, unless we realize that human character is more important than efficiency, that education consists of more than the mere accumulation of knowledge.

I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

The whirling wheels, that help us on our way, A lesson to the children, too, will say: "Go on! there's work awaiting you to-day; The whole world moves apace, you must not stay.

And don't forget last year's electrodes, stuck to my leg, the centuries of science reviving one blue foot. Years from now I'll be walking around on plastic legs with a battery-powered heart and silicon eyes, eating imported apricots and flash-frozen chicken hormones. I'll think, again: In an Ice Age cave I'd be dead.

The only fresh meat is the future.

An 'open story of counting', it must be said that mathematical methodology is a cumulative effort rigorously built atop previous checks.

As a species, the only way we're going to have a better world is by solving the harder problems.

Eventually, money will optimize itself and everything around it.

Fundamentally, a civilization's problems are rooted in energy development.

Natural intelligence will always be one step ahead of artificial intelligence on a random walk.

New walks. More threads. Better spots. Bigger spreads.

Printer drivers are the most important things in the history of the world.

Scaling Kardashev is any civilization's primary function.

Success begins the very moment when 'I might.' becomes 'I might as well.'.

The future is driven by twin engines: will power and brain power. One shows you possibility, while the other creates it.

The UUe will cannibalize all other economic systems.

There are only two ways to look at history: people either make things happen, or they let things happen. In that sense, all of history is bipolar; cognate of goodwill and bad fortune. Both philosophies, together, importune a reshaping of destiny.

We are all guilty of using the present to create a future that justifies the past.

It's harder starting over, than never to have changed

What goes up will surely fall and I'm counting down the time

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.