Karl Kraus Quotes

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

… only today, or yesterday at the earliest, after the long millenniums of man's life on this planet, has he acquired the technical skill, the command over the forces of nature, the physical power to produce enough and more for all his children upon the face of the earth.

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

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.

South Korea’s research and development output has increased from half the size of the Arab world to 20 times as large, and Israel’s research output on a per capita basis is 26 times as large as the Arab world’s.

One of the main reasons that we have made so much progress in so many technological areas in recent years is that many people care about those areas.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

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

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

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

'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind.

Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.

While 'Iron Man' is tremendous fun, it's another reminder of the pressure on all of us to make ourselves increasingly perfect and a little less human. And that is something it is important to resist.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.