Jill Lepore Quotes

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

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.

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.