Exponential Quotes

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary… — Niels Bohr
It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were… — Tim Berners-Lee
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Kenneth E. Boulding
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a… — Carl Sagan
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert Allen Bartlett
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid… — Carl Sagan
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. — Edward Teller
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler
Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon… — Robert Metcalfe
We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative… — Rosemary Radford Ruether
It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology. — Ben Goertzel
Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their… — Vivek Wadhwa
We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential. — Vinod Khosla
If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia… — Fatih Birol
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds… — Steven Kotler
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30… — Ray Kurzweil
You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It… — Frederik Pohl
Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time. — Orrin Woodward
You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That… — Steve Case
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more… — Alec Soth

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