Drew Curtis Quotes

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

I'm the fastest thing on two feet.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

This must be Monday Night RAW, we just got a Wendy's chant.

Last name 'Ever', first name 'Greatest'

I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.