Quotes About Advancement

As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

A man must constantly exceed his level

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo," Enoch said.

For most of history those battles happen only every few centuries—you have the chariot, the compound bow, gunpowder, ironclad ships, and so on. But something happens around, say, the time that the Monitor, which the Northerners believe to be the only ironclad warship on earth, just happens to run into the Merrimack