Quotes About Advancement

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

Well, one of the things I should tell you is that if you look at the very long sweep of history what you see is that the rate of growth has been speeding up, the rate of progress, and that's because there's more and more people who are all engaged in this process of discovery.

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Homo innove par ce qu il stocke.

I was especially delighted with the mathematics, on account of the certitude and evidence of their reasonings; but I had not as yet a precise knowledge of their true use; and thinking that they but contributed to the advancement of the mechanical arts, I was astonished that foundations, so strong and solid, should have had no loftier superstructure reared on them.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

If you want to advance a private interest, turn it into a public cause.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Ideeën zijn de motor van vooruitgang.

proceeds and walking

There's nothing wrong with civilization. We're just no there yet.

It assumes that better means faster. By those standards, a typewriter is nothing but a very bad computer.

Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.

People want to grow. Expand their empires. That's why they pay us every month. The place fills in. We make it a little bigger. There's no other way to run a world.

In the next hundred years, wooden wagonways diffused across England.