Sebastian Thrun Quotes

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.

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

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 march of progress must continue.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

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

Please, join the modern world.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

Science is the future of mankind.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

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

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.