Quotes About Advancement

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield.

while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.

mientras que la humanidad ha incrementado colectivamente sus poderes materiales cientos de veces, no ha avanzado mucho en términos de mejorar el contenido de su experiencia.

When a field becomes too self-referential and cut off from reality, it runs the risk of becoming irrelevant. It is often dissatisfaction with the rigidity of domains that makes great creative advances possible.

your life is a gigantic work in progress

If you passionately commit yourself to living out his purposes and advancing his kingdom, then God will make sure you live in his will. Trust him that if you are not going in the right direction, he will redirect you. But, I urge you, if you are paralyzed by the idea of the will of God, do something. Doing anything God-honoring is far better than doing nothing at all.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Everything new sounds ridiculous until someone makes it happen.

Always be moving forward. Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

If the regular pay was important to him, the opportunity to learn was of even greater long-range significance.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

While meteorology as an applied science has made tremendous strides in the past fifty years, we have not yet discovered a cure for bureaucracy.

If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

he believed that a man must learn constantly. He loathed waste of any kind,

Above all, he believed that a man must learn constantly.

With ploughs we can cultivate, with telescopes we can see, with engines we can travel, far beyond the limits of our unassisted bodies. But tools do more than extend our bodies: they expand our minds. Technology facilitates ideas that might otherwise be inconceivable.

Computer pioneer Alan Kay likes to say that technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Surpass today what you were yesterday, go beyond those of poor skill tomorrow, and exceed those who are skillful later.