Quotes About Expansion

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and you've essentially insulated yourself against a planetary apocalypse? Maybe that's enough.

If there's no limit to how big the entropy can get, then you can start anywhere, and from that starting point, you'd expect entropy to rise as the system moves to explore larger and larger regions of phase space.

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

The world is far bigger than we believe," he murmured. "What more could we see if we but looked?

a successful collaboration pushes margins of both partners

Blue oceans are right next to you in every industry.

None of this nine or ten nonsense and I don't care what the parish priest says. There will soon be so many people on this planet that it will be standing room only.

Corporations go through cycles of growth and retrenching, what I call corporate yo-yo dieting. Companies that expand continually are companies that grow fat. Then they're forced to diet, or downsize in "corp" speak, until they can grow again and reengineer (a new body in ninety days!), merge and acquire other companies (weightlifting and muscle training) until the cycle starts anew, and they're forced to reduce again (lose twenty pounds in six weeks!).

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.

Since we are messaging with far more people than we used to when messaging meant airmail or phone calls, we have an incentive to meet more people.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Najbardziej ogranicza nas wcale nie to, czego chcemy i czego nie mo?emy zrobi?. Ogranicza nas to, czego nigdy w ogóle nie braliÅ›my pod uwagÄ™".

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

The two models of revival are in reality only one: the expanding of God's kingdom in a liberating warfare against the forces of darkness in which the most important battleground is the hearts of men.

If you only knew the beauty which awaits you, Daniel. If you only knew how lovely are the realms which lie beyond this house. Would you keep yourself locked in a barren cell when all the beauties of the universe await you on the outside?

Every belief will be outgrown, in time. The first lesson of the universe is to never reason from only a single instance. Unless you only have one instance. In which case: find another.

English first swarmed a continent that rose from the ocean overnight, seeking masts for their leviathan frigates and ships of the line, masts that no place in all stripped Europe, not even the farthest boreal north, could any longer provide.

People want to grow. Expand their empires. That's why they pay us every month. The place fills in. We make it a little bigger. There's no other way to run a world.

Whole new rooms open up in Adam's brain, ready to be furnished.

This land of animated wishes will expand without limits. It will fill with richer, wilder, more surprising life beyond life. The map will grow as full as the thing it stands for. And still people will be hungry and alone.

when you spend all your hours with horses, your soul expands a bit until the ways of men reveal themselves to be no more than a costume party you'd be well advised not to take at face value.

the American population was increasing rapidly, from 5.3 million in 1800 to 12.9 million in 1830, and from sixteen states in 1800 to twenty-four in 1830, most of the increase across the mountains in the trans-Appalachian west. The river steamboat from 1807, the Erie Canal between Albany, New York, and the Great Lakes from 1825, railroads from 1829, penetrated the American wilderness and fostered its settlement. These new places and people needed lighting.