Mark Frost Quotes

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly applied under conditions of peace and justice.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don't think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.... Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before.

Machines and their development provide the greatest opportunity in the whole history of mankind to improve the lot of the individual human being.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.

I think AMD is at our best when we're working with a customer and allowing them to do something they couldn't do before.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.