Quotes About Evolution

Technological advances are changing what clients need, the services we provide, and how we interact with them.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

What we should really be thinking about is what it would look like for a truly intelligent technological species to be interacting with their planet's atmosphere.

There's no doubt that the search for planets is motivated by the search for life. Humans are interested in whether or not life evolves on other planets. We'd especially like to find communicating, technological life, and we look around our own solar system, and we see that of all the planets, there's only one that's inhabited.

I don't want to tell a story about how technological advancement is bad.

Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.

Changes that are being enhanced by technological innovation (social media being a case in point) are happening at an increasing rate.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.