Consequence Quote by 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

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

— Roy Amara

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

— Isabelle Kocher

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

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

— David House

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

— Gretchen Rubin

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

— Wynton Marsalis

I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in…

— Chuck Klosterman

What's maybe being underestimated is that in every country in the world, there is innovation.

— Julie Sweet

“Most people overestimate what they can do in a year and they underestimate what they can do in two or three decades.”

— Tony Robbins

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

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

— Henry David Thoreau