Quotes About Progress

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

For at least two million years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated Spaceship Earth.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.

Fuimos llamados para ser los arquitectos del futuro, no sus víctimas.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained."8

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

Ergot, growing millennia later on certain cultivated grains, seems to have coincided in its arrival on the human stage with the discovery by Man of agriculture.

History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.

When faced with a challenge (be it a hurricane or a struggling business or a reluctance to start writing), we must decide to act and then we must act. We should perceive our worries as an indication that we should meet our challenges head on, cut right to the heart of them, and take action. Otherwise, we'll be in the aftermath of the storm, sitting and staring at that old tree that's collapsed onto our patio, and asking, "Well, what now?

Never view a future task as a test of your progress or of your ability to overcome panic.

When you decide that all your experiences are practice, you are in effect saying that you are both willing and able to learn from each experience.

If only cats grew into kittens.

The worse thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.

We're not allowed miracles," she told John. "We traded them in for technology some years ago and now we're stuck with finding out how things work.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

When women are educated, the world is a better place.