Quotes About Progress

George Bernard Shaw once put it: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed

movie 2001: A Space Odyssey." Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals.

computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with.

run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story

home. What did two of Louis and Regina Borgenicht's sons do? They went to law school, and no less than nine of their grandchildren ended up as doctors and lawyers as well. Here is the most remarkable of Farkas's family trees. It belongs to a Jewish family from

the day when a computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would

use as ammunition, as pendulum

restaurants and bars opened along Garibaldi Avenue. More than a dozen factories sprang up making blouses for the garment trade. Neighboring Bangor

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable insiste en que el mundo se adapte a él. Por este motivo, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable».

neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of

manufacturing started in earnest. It was when all the rules by which

Dis am life; some go up and some go down.

that extra practice under his belt, he really is better, so he's the one more likely to make it to

a radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

None of those things, though, will improve her math and reading skills, and every carefree summer day she spends puts her further and further behind Alex.

Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage.

But before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn how to be an expert.

the systems we set up to determine who gets ahead aren't particularly efficient.

But it is an advance that has nothing to do with taking more pictures, or taking better pictures. It has to do with going beyond the picture.

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment... Her bare Feet seem to be saying: We have come so far, it is over.

passed in those days for computer terminals. In 1971, this was state of the art. The University of Michigan had one of the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over