Quotes About Evolution

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.

Albert Einstein once said, "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

as time passes, the spontaneity and interest fades and it gets rougher. you become unable to forgive things you used to forgive. only your demands will increase. if you know the person won't answer to them, you start to look for something else. after all, no matter how close you were, you're the same as everyone else. if your expectations are too high, you are the one who's going to get hurt.

Surrounded by progress, I feel a nagging sense of our species' regression.

Pero, cómo pudo Lu Wenli irse con el profesor Liu? -pregunté-. ¡Es inconcebible! -Acaso era concebible meterle la pelota en la boca de un requetazo? -replicó He Zhiwu. Indudablemente, eso formaba parte de las cosas inconcebibles, lo que demuestra que los asuntos de este mundo sufren infinitos cambios y evoluciones, que la suerte reúne a las parejas predestinadas a través de las más extrañas e imprevisibles coincidencias. No hay nada imposible.

Le cose del mondo sono come i libri, che vanno sfogliati una pagina per volta. Gli uomini devono guardare avanti ed evitare di rivangare vecchie questioni; i cani devono avanzare con i tempi e fronteggiare la realtà.

When I'd asked for a drum machine for Christmas my family had been confused – none of them knew what a drum machine was. But I'd noticed that a lot of my musical heroes who'd started off as punk-rockers, like New Order and Killing Joke, were now using synthesizers and drum machines, and I wanted to join them.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of life.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

We are all migrants through time.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

Specifically it is about how power—the capacity to get others to do, or to stop doing, something—is undergoing a historic and world-changing transformation.

Quién está arriba y quién está abajo va a importar cada vez menos en un mundo en el que los que llegan a la cima no permanecen mucho tiempo en ella y cada vez pueden hacer menos cosas con el poder que tienen.

La adaptación de los partidos políticos al siglo XXI es una prioridad.

Hubo un tiempo, no muy remoto aún, en el que los villanos eran gente buena. Se llamaban «villanos» porque vivían en una villa. Pero, como otras palabras transformadas por el azar del tiempo, el carácter humilde e ignorante de los villanos se convirtió en sinónimo de indecencia, grosería y maldad. Tal parece que ni los propios villanos comprenden por qué la historia los ha convertido en malos.

Empujada por los cambios en la manera de adquirir, usar y retener el poder, la humanidad debe encontrar, y encontrará, nuevas fórmulas para gobernarse

There are more Grandmasters now than ever before: 1,200-plus today versus 88 in 1972. And

los cambios que han hecho que el poder sea más fácil de obtener, más complicado de usar y más difícil de conservar.

El poder se está degradando. En pocas palabras, el poder ya no es lo que era.