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Quotes About Progress

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~ Charles Kettering
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
~ Clyde Tombaugh
Our nation is too strong and too good to let one man tear down everything we stand for. I refuse to let Donald Trump take our country backwards.
~ Cary Kennedy
We need to build on the progress of the Affordable Care Act, not tear it down in the middle of a global pandemic.
~ Sharice Davids
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
~ Greg Graffin
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s.
~ Kim Gordon
We can be proud of a president that brings families together instead of tearing them apart. A president who believes our best days are ahead of us. That's Joe Biden.
~ Jill Biden
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.
~ John Lewis
Let us not return to the old battlefield where so many shed blood and tears for the right to vote. Instead let us move forward to an era where all eligible Americans have equal access to the ballot box and have the freedom to vote for the candidate of their choosing.
~ Marc Veasey
To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.
~ Curtis Mayfield
Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.
~ Daniel Lyons
The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.
~ Boots Riley
I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?
~ Neil Harbisson
Wearable tech is really exploding, and I feel like five years down the road tech is going to be totally in our clothing. It's the next frontier for tech to conquer in our lives.
~ Mark Rober
What you want is to have women at the same pace as men doing tech immersion. It's not that every woman has to do it, but to close the gap, you need to have them do it at the same pace as men.
~ Julie Sweet
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.
~ Janet Napolitano
It's easy to lose the humanity when you start showcasing tech.
~ Chris Milk
I'm not tech savvy at all.
~ Charles Best
I want people to understand how the tech world changes my world.
~ Chamillionaire
Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.
~ Chamath Palihapitiya
In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.
~ Ayanna Pressley
The way we'll get more jobs is by creating new industries, new companies, businesses that are higher tech and therefore can compete.
~ Wilbur Ross
I think it's the responsibility of people in tech to find solutions.
~ Shervin Pishevar