Quotes About Advancement

The 8086 CPU was the first x86 processor. It was developed and manufactured by Intel, which later developed more advanced processors in the same family: the 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486. If you remember people talking about 386 and 486 processors in the '80s and '90s, this is what they were referring to.

Product development process transitions

Some things get big as people store more data in them; this is called progressive commitment.

Piper talked forcefully about how the greatest strength of true Christianity is that it gives people the courage to endure defeat and even suffering without bitterness and that this is the way that the faith will advance, not through vanquishing enemies.

Humanity has been taking off like a rocket since the 1700s, but we have not achieved a stable orbit in the heavens. And even if we did, no orbit is stable in the long run. Eventually gravity claims what is hers.

There is no such thing as maintenance. If you're not trying to get better, you're getting worse.

Life expectancy in the UK in 1900 was forty-seven years for men, fifty for women, and in 2017, seventy-nine years for men and eighty-three for women, an increase of between two and three extra years in every decade. We are, quite simply, better off, better-informed, healthier and freer than any previous generation.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

siempre se progresa cuando se trabaja

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying-chariot through the fields of air.

Just as personal digital technologies have caused economic, social and scientific revolutions unimagined when we had our first few computers, we must expect and prepare for similar changes as we move forward from our first few genomes. —George Church1

of work. Over that period, we were making constant improvements to the

engine of growth

job positions that used to accept a high school diploma now need an Associate's degree. Positions that used to accept an Associate's degree now need a Bachelors degree. And lastly, Bachelors degree preferred positions now require a Masters degree.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

took ten years and $5 billion to sequence the first human genome, and now it takes less than twenty-four hours and costs less than $1,500.5

scientists rush to publish in order to gain the benefits associated with being the first to have made a particular advancement.

contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and

Erst wenn die Mutigen klug und die Klugen mutig geworden sind, wird das zu spüren sein, was irrtümlicherweise schon oft festgestellt wurde: ein Fortschritt der Menschheit. (Not until the courageous have become smart and the smart courageous, can we feel what often has been erroneously declared: an advancement of human kind.)

the shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity!

Technology is the art of the possible.

Japanese cuisine did not change all at once but in stages.