Georges St-Pierre Quotes

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world and the environment better, it can make life so much better for many of us. Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery I think AI has the potential to free up humanity from a lot of the mental drudgery.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

There's just always going to be both positives and negatives to any evolution that we're a part of. And there's really no stopping the evolution of technology. There has been more and more integration in our daily lives, so we become more and more dependent on it.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.