Quotes About Advancement

You know what Arthur C. Clarke said about technology and magic, right? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Though I feel like were only just about to get started. We wouldn't star over, we'd just start.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.'

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

We have a lot of work to do to get really important useful capabilities into people's hands - self-driving cars are going to save an enormous number of lives.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users.

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.