#advance

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#advances #ago #century #communication #email

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. ↗

— Alexander Fleming

#details #due #enterprise #first #idea

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#almost #anthropology #become #been #consciousness

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#best #impromptu #ones #speeches #very

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#atomic #clock #come #computer #contraction

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. ↗

— William James

#beneficial #copy #guide #interaction #occur

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. ↗

— Leon Kass

#fertilization #knew #large #nobody #safe

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#between #connection #develop #fear #made

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#age #changes #economy #government #internet

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#because #get #going #hour #interviews