Quotes About Advancement

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

A character in a TV series tends to grow and take shape as you go along.

I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

I help relationships come to an end or help them go to the next level. It can be boyfriend or girlfriend, or if you want to quit your job.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

God always wants us to be growing.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

China is working on a similar system for its future carriers. Donald Trump may want to go back to 1920s-level technology, but the rest of the world isn't.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.