Quotes About Advancement

You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.

We must treat access to the Internet similar to the way we treat access to all of our utilities because in the modern world lack of Internet access means people are held back from advancing economically, and it can even put their own health at risk.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

What I value is that I have been able to do some modest work to help women rise to the level of their potential.

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Computers double their performance every month.

I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Every two years, to keep Moore's Law happening, you have to invent... That's where I grew up.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

Are machines getting more and more powerful? Absolutely. It's been going on since 1940. We are making progress, and for many people, it will be a lifesaver.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32.

Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history

There's always stuff to work on. You're never there.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part

This book isn't an attempt to identify the fifty most economically significant inventions. It's not a book-length listicle, with a countdown to the most important invention of all. Indeed, some that would be no-brainers on any such list haven't made the cut: the printing press, the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the airplane, and the computer.

Understanding that what used to be hard is now free and easy due to the work of others is essential to the leapfrogging progress of technology.