Sherry Turkle Quotes

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.

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

We want to change lives.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

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

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.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.

Machines and their development provide the greatest opportunity in the whole history of mankind to improve the lot of the individual human being.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.