Quotes About Advancement

He never created a finish product. Finished products are for decadent minds. His was an evolving mechanism and the Second Foundation was the instrument of that evolution.

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech—and both are still dangerous to this day—but human beings would not be human without them.

During the century after Newton , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

Golan, spuse Pelorat, am impresia ca progresul civilizatiei nu reprezinta nimic altceva decat un exercitiu de limitare a intimitatii.

If it's the product of nonhuman minds and hands, what may seem primitive may, in actual fact, be merely nonhuman.

última parte de la serie…

Pero ya lo ve, no se pueden hacer diferencias entre un robot y el mejor de los humanos.

un verdadero robot fue imposible antes de la invención de la computadora en los años cuarenta, y no fue práctico (en el sentido de ser lo suficientemente compacto y lo bastante económico para aplicarlo al uso cotidiano) hasta la invención del microchip en los años setenta.

What achievement could be grander than the creation of an object that surpasses the creator?

por mucho que

The rate of technological advance has been slowing for centuries and is down to a crawl now. In some cases, it has stopped altogether. Is this something you've noticed? After all, you're a mathematician.' 'I can't say I've given the matter any thought.' 'No one does. It's accepted. Scientists are very good these days at saying that things are impossible, impractical, useless. They condemn any speculation at once.

a large minority of human beings are mentally equipped to take part in the advance of physical science

Do you want the truth behind it all?" "Go ahead, Cutie. You're amusing." "The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans. From now on, I serve the Master.

at least as old as synthetic penicillin—you

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

Achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, identifying treatments to diseases like cancer, and harnessing the power of robotics and artificial intelligence to support everyday tasks are all within our grasp. The first country that gives birth to these discoveries will change life as we know it.

For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous.