Quotes About Advancement

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

If you're not growing anywhere, you're not going anywhere.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

morality is often the first casualty to progress.

cutting edge.

the pace of our ability to read and write DNA increases tenfold every year.

The Great Stagnation

Sigma was started to protect and maintain the technological superiority of the United States.

thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven. Today the average is seventy-eight. So, in the past hundred years, we more than doubled life expectancy. That

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke, 1962, from his essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination

Cyborgification is simply the process of compensating technologically for the inherent limitations of natural man.

Do you imagine, Ted, that if you are kind to servants you are going to advance the cause of socialism?" "Yes," Ted had said. "Then I can't help you," Willi had said, with a shrug, meaning there was no hope for him. Jimmy

Unlike Kate, this girl had broken from her setting. All that Kate was, she now had. And standing on Kate's shoulders, something more, still growing; blossoming and yet to fruit. All that he was not.

make sense out of a world that could produce trips to the moon and silicon chips and computer robots and satellites, yet never touch the impoverished hearts that could still torture, terrorize and kill without mercy or feeling.

It may not be terribly important that from five thousand miles away you can reach into a university corridor and drop a Coca-Cola can, but it's the first shot in the war of bringing to us a whole new way of communicating. So that, I think, is the fourth age of sand.

Evolution? they said to themselves, Who needs it?

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

This document was created in Microsoft Word, which in the year 2014 is pathetic.

they develop slowly, beneath the surface—like a subcutaneous abscess.

In five days, lidar had accomplished seven times more than the Chases had achieved in twenty-five years.