Quotes About Advancement

They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific... We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change.

Multi-XMP? You mean more than one Cray?

They were making scientific history

They were seduced by their own technology.

There are many people, including myself, who are quite queasy about the consequences of this technology for the future. —K. Eric Drexler, 1992

You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?

The technologist's tendency to commit all his resources to new technology

By his fourth pro season Taylor was not just feeding

there is no name for what he's looking for, which, typically, is a technology, or an idea, on the cusp of commercial viability. The new new thing.

It's the idea that is a tiny push away from general acceptance and, when it gets that push, will change the world. The

You can never go back, only forward. I read that in a book once.

We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress.

The real sin of revolutionaries, communist or not, was that they championed the laboring classes against the wealthy few. They advocated changes in the distribution of class power and the way wealth was produced and used. They wanted less individualistic advancement at the expense of the many and collective betterment for the entire working populace.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

I am trying to grow and I am trying to improve every single day.

I'm still learning new things every single day.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

The more opportunities you have in any setting, situation, you're going to be better off.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

There is always the next big thing, the next big skater.

Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?

A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.