Scott Adams Quotes

We should be focused on how to make people's lives better. That is the purpose of technology.

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.... Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before.

More goods and fewer people" is the slogan I should like to see carried at the head of humanity's march into the future.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

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

Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

There are no doors that we cannot unlock.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.

In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can. Innovation is a necessity.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

In moments of difficulty there are positives you can take and lessons you can learn.

One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.

Sometimes you get in life something you don't like... you have to do something different.

I always say the more problems you have, the more opportunities you have.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.