Change Quote by Vernor Vinge

“Mankind has not changed in 10,000 years.”

— GE Paulus

“There are about 2.5 billion (10^9) seconds in a human lifetime.”

— Caleb Scharf

“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed…

— Liu Cixin

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

“It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.”

— James S.A. Corey

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“Every minute wasted on complexity is a minute stolen from creation.”

— Greg Born

“Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.”

— Justin Cronin

“centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves,…

— Isaac Asimov

“Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.…

— Steven Galloway

“A wall was slowly being constructed between art and science, a wall that still stands today.”

— Laura J. Snyder