Quotes About Advancement

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.

Always move forward if you have the option.

I see your capacity for addition has improved

If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Hispanics are faring quite poorly relative to most other groups, and Asians are faring quite well, as they surpass whites by a comfortable margin.

It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

It's as if people used the invention

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

This century has been so rich in discovery and so packed with technical innovation that it is tempting to believe that there can never be another like it. That conceit betrays the poverty of our collective imagination.

I feel that my best work is ahead of me. I am embarrassed to look at my earlier writing now.

A time of open scientific and technical experimentation, the period 1963 to 1969 was considered the "golden years" of AI.

It is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of transition

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

as soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore.

Also, in every advancement of the world hitherto, the individual has led the masses. Thus, to elicit individuality has been the object of the best political institutions and governments. Now, in these new theories, the individual is ground down into the multitude, and society must be 'moving all together if it moves at all' — restricting the very possibility of progress by the use of the lights of genius. Genius is always individual.

Technology is always double-edged, and the day stone tools were invented, axe murder became possible.

Spurred on by both the science and science fiction of our time, my generation of researchers and engineers grew up to ask what if? and what's next? We went on to pursue new disciplines like computer vision, artificial intelligence, real-time speech translation, machine learning, and quantum computing.

Why shouldn't it last? We are living in the age of progress, William. Mankind is progressing." To which remark William had always replied with the irritating question, "What to?

more work is accomplished in one day than many diligent scribes could do in a year….