Pavel Ukhtomskii Quotes

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

The advancement of the arts (technology) from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Patents should be for technological innovations. So a program for a new machine tool should be patentable but a non-technological innovation, such as grammar-checking software for a word-processor, should not be.

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.