Development Quote by Daniel Yergin

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

— Stewart Butterfield

“We tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term.”

— Roy Amara

Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every…

— Andy Grove

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long…

— Francis Collins

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

— Roy Amara

Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a…

— Thomas Keating

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

— Hilary Mason

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

— Mitch Kapor

The reality is technology is here, technology will only improve and certain technology companies will dominate in the next five to ten years, ...…

— George Rodrigue

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's…

— Eric Schmidt

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything…

— Godfrey Reggio

Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.

— Charles Platt