Exponential Quotes

#1. If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.

Sherman Alexie

#2. The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Sam Altman

#3. I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

Louis C.K.

#4. Most long-range forecasts of what is technically feasible in future time periods dramatically underestimate the power of future developments because they are based on what I call the "intuitive linear" view of history rather than the "historical exponential" view.

Ray Kurzweil

#5. If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.

Bryant McGill

#6. two of the most important function classes: exponential and trigonometric functions.

Metin Bektas

#7. Life itself is exponential.

Jeff Rich

#8. I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.

Barry Ptolemy

#9. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.

Christopher Babson

#10. Von Neumann makes two important observations here: acceleration and singularity. The first idea is that human progress is exponential (that is, it expands by repeatedly multiplying by a constant) rather than linear (that is, expanding by repeatedly adding a constant).

Ray Kurzweil

#11. When people of similar frequencies come together, output is not a simple sum of individual work, but exponential. In science we term this phenomenon as resonance. Output at this stage is beyond any logical limit.

Ravindra Shukla

#12. The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

Mitch Kapor

#13. There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections

Michio Kaku

#14. You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

Frederik Pohl

#15. Ignorance is not linear, it's exponential.

Spuds Crawford

#16. Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#17. Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.

Gary F. Marcus

#18. To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.

Bill Maris

#19. Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Mitch Kapor

#20. Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.

Bill Henson

#21. Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

Narendra Modi

#22. People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.

Peter Diamandis

#23. When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Narendra Modi

#24. The great differentiator going forward, the next frontier for exponential growth, the place where individuals and organizations will find a new and sustainable competitive edge, resides in the area of human connectivity.

Susan Scott

#25. It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.

Ben Goertzel

#26. The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

Nicholas Negroponte

#27. Anyway, so you take your space and hook it into the spaces of others, and it becomes this massive network of hooked profiles and spaced out stuff that gives rise to all kinds of newish social phenomena based on the mathematics of exponential expansion and the science of complexity.

Zubin J. Shroff

#28. How do we identify trends? Not by trendlines. My favorite tools are exponential moving averages that we'll review in the next section.

Anonymous

#29. It was like an exponential weed. And people treated me as if I was an established musician. I wasn't.

Jack Tatum

#30. The longer I stood there, the longer I had to stand there. It was intricate and exponential. I looked like I was doing nothing, but really I was as busy as a physicist or a politician. I was strategizing my next move. That my next move was always not to move didn't make it any easier.

Miranda July

#31. An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.

Peter Diamandis

#32. After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

Leonhard Euler

#33. The first idea is that human progress is exponential (that is, it expands by repeatedly multiplying by a constant) rather than linear (that is, expanding by repeatedly adding a constant). Linear versus exponential: Linear growth is steady; exponential growth becomes explosive.

Ray Kurzweil

#34. Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#35. Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Ray Kurzweil

#36. Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

Kevin Allen

#37. Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

Peter Diamandis

#38. We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#39. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

#40. sustained exponential improvement in most aspects of computing, extraordinarily large amounts of digitized information, and recombinant innovation. These three forces are yielding breakthroughs that convert science fiction into everyday reality,

Anonymous

#41. Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.

Orrin Woodward

#42. You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.

Steve Case

#43. The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

Edward Teller

#44. The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.

Pat Robertson

#45. We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

Edgar Mitchell

#46. Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn't. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one's craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.

Ken Goldstein

#47. Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

Sanjay Kumar

#48. Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

Stephanie Mills

#49. I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

Neal Shusterman

#50. Chapter 8: Exponential Functions Chapter 9:

Andrew Gloag

#51. We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

Vinod Khosla

#52. We need to transform
the current scientific worldview
into a modern metaphysical
worldview in order to survive
the exponential disruptive technologies
we are about to
unleash upon ourselves

Jonathan R. Banks

#53. It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Lauren Groff

#54. The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially - and it's scaling for good and it's scaling for evil.

Marc Goodman

#55. We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

Ian Somerhalder

#56. The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

Tom Rath

#57. I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

Jason Silva

#58. Kindness costs us nothing and pays exponential dividends.

Kate Bartolotta

#59. The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.

Jeff Greene

#60. [L]ean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs - meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance. Exponential technology is that asteroid.

Peter H. Diamandis

#61. If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

Baba Kalyani

#62. Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Dee Dee Myers

#63. I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

David Suzuki

#64. Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

Tom Chatfield

#65. Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation

Craig Groeschel

#66. Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

S. Jay Olshansky

#67. Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Randy Pausch

#68. Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.

Alec Soth

#69. Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#70. We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

Jeremy Grantham

#71. It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.

Carl Sagan

#72. The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

Alison Gopnik

#73. The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

David Lagercrantz

#74. The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.

Donald Barthelme

#75. It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#76. The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

Henry Hazlitt

#77. Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets.

Tony Dovale