Quotes About Advancement

The computer will never be as important to society as the copier."73

Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.

Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.

performance" would double every eighteen months because of the increased power as well as the increased numbers of transistors that would be put onto a microchip.

Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science.

The Internet and the personal computer were both born in the 1970s, but they grew up apart from one another.

War mobilizes science.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

His paper, titled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," was published in the April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine.

It conjured up memories of what he sounded like when he was young, and how, as in his favorite Dylan song, he had remained forever young. "They push the human race forward

trajectory that could be expected to continue. This was reaffirmed in 1971, when Intel was able to etch a complete central processing unit onto one chip, the Intel 4004, which was dubbed

atomic power, radar, and the Internet—were spawned by the military.

Some of the most important technologies of our era, such as the fracking techniques developed over the past six decades for extracting natural gas, came about because of countless small innovations as well as a few breakthrough leaps.

NASA was able to send a man to the moon. Engineers in Silicon Valley were able to devise a way to put a programmable computer on a chip called a microprocessor. And ARPA created a network that could connect distant computers.

His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.

You can invent your way to a better place.

Future generations will figure out the details.

Steve Jobs built on the work of Alan Kay, who built on Doug Engelbart, who built on J. C. R. Licklider and Vannevar Bush.

Obviously, underdevelopment is not absence of development, because every people have developed in one way or another and to a greater or lesser extent. Underdevelopment makes sense only as a means of comparing levels of development. It is very much tied to the fact that human social development has been uneven and from a strictly economic viewpoint some human groups have advanced further by producing more and becoming more wealthy. (15)

Whenever new knowledge of a transforming nature permeates the race, the standard of world culture rises.

Get something to improve yourself at least 1% each day

Science fiction didn't see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn't see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

look at what's deficient and be an instrument of increasing