Quotes About Progress

Highway building, in their scheme, was a form of social and economic therapy.

the past is only the future with the lights on.

It's far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

A method is only as good as its measurable results

Between the health care that we have now and the health care that we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm. —Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001 We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

The technology never reverses itself. It creates new technology to confront new sets of problems.

People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.

By yielding results as it goes, the walker does not require its clients to wait for an entire tree to be scanned.

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Either way, nuclear power is the only means by which we can generate prodigious amounts of energy with only a tiny human footprint on the planetary biosphere.

There is no doubt that new designs available today are dramatically safer than those of the past, and that the potential for severe accidents in future vastly reduced.

Make no mistake: opposing low-carbon technologies is an implicit vote for a high-carbon energy system, and opponents must recognise this real-world trade-off."[

In other words, we are losing the war on carbon precisely because we are winning the war on poverty.

In terms of our energy mix, therefore, and despite tablet computers, synthetic biology and Twitter, we are really only mid-way through the Industrial Revolution.

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change

Many people in the world see events as they are; leaders are different in that they see things that could be. And the future they see is always a better version of the present. We believe we can make a difference; we think we can make the world, or at least our part of it, better. Leaders are generally more optimistic than nonleaders.

Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it?

These are the Disciplines that can change everything!

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

The idea of whole brain emulation - which was, in effect, the liberation from matter, from the physical world - seemed to me an extreme example of the way in which science, or the belief in scientific progress, was replacing religion as the vector of deep cultural desires and delusions.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.