Top 1200 Technological Progress Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.

Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.

When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

We've made great progress coordinating better as a government.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.

What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

Never attempt to accelerate your progress

It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.

Planned obsolescence is another word for progress.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

With every innovation that has happened, we somehow, our country, our society has found jobs and a means of income for people who have been aced out. And it happens a lot with innovation, technological and otherwise. And people do prove adaptive.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing.

If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

My thought is the only way I will have progress is in the NBA.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

"Thank You for Being Late" pinpoints 2007 as the year what he calls the, quote, great acceleration began, ushering in a dizzying and disorienting era of change - technological, economic, environmental. Dealing with that change, the challenge of our time, says Tom Friedman. He's here to explain it right now.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

You never stop trying to make progress as a musician.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

You need somebody to be firm with you and hard on you and watch you progress.

People can progress only by working and producing more.

The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children.

The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

Without death there would be very little progress.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

I believe we're making really good progress in Iraq.

The advantages of globalization are actually much like the advantages of technological improvement. They have very similar effects: they raise output in countries, raise productivity, create more jobs, raise wages, and lower prices of products in the world economy.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.