Advances Quote by Martin Rees

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

— James Woods

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

— John Herschel

“Prediction requires knowing about technologies that will be discovered in the future, but that very knowledge would almost automatically allow us to start developing…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly…

— Padmasree Warrior

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

— Alan Kay

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

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

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens…

— Jared Cohen

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and…

— Tony Hoare

“But the technology is only trivial retrospectively—not prospectively.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

— John Ratzenberger