Bill Nye Quotes

This is … a time when there is increasingly no such thing as a high-wage, middle-skilled job — the thing that sustained the middle class in the last generation. Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried — made obsolete — faster than ever

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

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

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

The '90s will be looked back on as ushering in an era of comfort.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

No particular technology lasts for long.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

As you get older, you do reflect more. They were great times, but the biggest thing we all had to deal with a lot more disappointment from an engineering point of view, there was not the reliability that there is now.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.

I was an active participant in India's key economic reforms, including the third industrial revolution and now the fourth industrial revolution.

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.