Warren Buffett Quotes

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

I've been in sport for 15 years now and I'm actually shocked at the changes. We had all these things, but we couldn't utilize them. They were not accessible to us. They're actually accessible right now.

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

It's a brave new world.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

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.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

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

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

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

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

The future will bring new possibilities and ideas - and new terms for them.

It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.