Quotes About Progress

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

The luxury industry is being radically reshaped by technology-driven innovation.

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

The more we learn about new communications, the more capacity we need, and that is going to keep going on forever. That's been happening since radio was invented, and that's going to keep going.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.

Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

China has gotten high-speed rail right, where the United States has not.

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

Comedians can't afford to get too comfortable; we need something to rail against.

We need to build roads, bridges, airports, locks, dams, and rail that work for this century - not the last one. And let's not forget about updating our energy grid, repairing and replacing our water infrastructure and sewers, and making sure all Americans have access to broadband.

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.