Klaus Lackner Quotes

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Every two years, to keep Moore's Law happening, you have to invent... That's where I grew up.

Life itself is exponential.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

Invention breeds invention.

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

Innovation means change.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

The people of California really like innovation.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. "I guess you think you're pretty great," The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. "And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you've grown so tall." "It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree, "It's just that you've stayed so small.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Sometimes people stay in the same cycle their entire life, but you can still mature within it.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

It's not uncommon for young people to expect things. It's part of growing up.

Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

When I get older, I will be stronger

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