Wynton Marsalis Quotes

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

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

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

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

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

The history of the world demonstrates that man becomes what we call civilized by increasing his wants.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.

To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart.