Quotes About Progress

That might be, but that's exactly where betrayal of human values begins: when the approach to science is merely scientific.

He switched the gasper off quickly before it burned the toaster and the whole damn table. Too much power. Technology again. Technology was the asshole of science.

He felt sad, angry and sorry. It was impossible to let the people benefit fully from scientific and ideological progress without first raising the level of cultural awareness of the masses. They had to discard all the traditional molds that were still narrowing their minds.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Learn something every, second, every minute, every hour, every day, every month, and every year but remember what the purpose was for learning all those things.

We all die in the middle of something.

Eating and scratching want but a beginning.

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.

The existence of autonomous individuals free to criticize was once a landmark of our civilization.

Adivasi societies are not fossilized societies.

The change from the categories of hunter-gatherers to pastoralism to agriculture involved using a decreasing area of land, but an increasingly more intensive use of the land.

The period from the ninth century in the subcontinent, far from being 'dark', was a period of illumination as it was germane to many later institutions.

A later age looks back with nostalgia at an earlier one and depicts it in terms of ideals and activities now receding.

The alienation implicit in modernization is sought to be assuaged by the creation of a past and of ideologies that legitimize the present.

Ron Ashkenas

Bob was not yet twenty, after all, while Jesse was thirty-four and in physical decline; each calendar week subtracted from Jesse the powers that Bob accrued.

Agile is simple—it just isn't easy.

Keeping the design good as it changes is called refactoring.

Always work on the highest possible value next.

The first thing we know about any project is the deadline—at

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Success seems to be connected with ACTION. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.