Technical Progress

Famous quotes containing the words technical progress, technical and/or progress:

    “I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1984)

    “In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)