Quotes About Future

During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go directly from his tongue to wikiquotes, shot back a line that was to become PARC's creed: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."60

think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could get their hands on and take home, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush.

I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting

After more than three billion years of evolution of life on this planet, one species (us) had developed the talent and temerity to grab control of its own genetic future. There

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.

the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers.

The two great Semitic peoples," he said, "have a great common future." If the Jews did not assure that both sides lived in harmony, he warned friends in the Zionist movement, the struggle would haunt them in decades to come.78 Once again, he was labeled naïve.

La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.

as to the current or future directions of Apple's product designs, nor do other design firms we might deal with, so it is possible to inadvertently design similar looking products. It is in both Apple's and NeXT's best interest to rely on Hartmut

As his father and others knew when they drew up the strict contract for his commission, Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. He was a genius undisciplined by diligence.

La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es inventarlo

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought," he answered, "but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.

singularity, a term that von Neumann coined and the futurist Ray Kurzweil and the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge popularized, which is sometimes used to describe the moment when computers are not only smarter than humans but also can design themselves to be even supersmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals.

It's time to go back to the moon, this time to stay.

We now have the power to control our genetic future, which is awesome and terrifying.

At the end of the 1940s, when it was becoming clear to him that the effort to control nuclear weaponry would fail, Einstein was asked what the next war would look like. "I do not know how the Third World War will be fought," he answered, "but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks."20

Most of us someday will have detection devices in our home that will allow us to check for viruses and many other conditions.

La esperanza es que, dentro de no muchos años, el cerebro humano y las máquinas computadoras estén unidos de un modo muy estrecho —escribió—, y que la asociación resultante piense como ningún cerebro humano lo haya hecho jamás y procese datos de un modo nunca atisbado por las máquinas de gestión de la información que conocemos hoy.

Si alguna vez surge una raza mentalmente sobrehumana —dijo en cierta ocasión Edward Teller, el creador de la bomba de hidrógeno—, sus miembros se parecerán a Johnny von Neumann.

But at night we began dreaming of Man's perfect world without humanity (57)

I could imagine a life in a world maybe a hundred years from now where my ideas and some man's might be the same.

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.