Quotes About Advancement

El conocimiento es neutral, la tecnología no lo es.

If domesticating crops was an earth-changing advance, figuring out how to reproduce them came a close second.

For millions of years, human beings have conquered their ignorance by dividing the labor of discovery

There is always room at the top.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4 000 meters.

So often, over the history of the oil industry, it is said that technology has gone about as far as it can and that the "end of the road" for the oil industry is in sight. And then, new innovations dramatically expand capabilities. This pattern would be repeated again and again.

Others see obstacles; I see opportunities.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Traction equals satisfaction

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

Windows XP in a box")

Well, we live in a world that's gone crazy with technology, and some of that technology can be harnessed to do more than it's intended to do.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

Invention accumulates. If you combine the diesel engine, GPS, and the echo sounder, the opportunities they create are not just added to one another, they are multiplied.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

The opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.

I love to compound interest in everything I do in life in all ways not just monetary activities but in all ways

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Desde el momento en el que el primero de nuestros antepasados convirtió un palo en una lanza, las consecuencias de los conflictos a lo largo de la historia han sido impuestas por la tecnologia.

Success breeds success remember that

Through all of human history from its earliest beginnings until now, there have been only three basic stages of economic life: (1) hunting-and-gathering societies; (2) agricultural societies; and (3) industrial societies.

Burn me--you grew some nice-sized eggs over night, now didn't ya?

The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and destruction…. A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!