Quotes About Progress

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won't fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3

We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.2.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.

All progress, ultimately, is the result of playing with ideas and seeing new ways of connecting existing knowledge in such a way that the sum is greater than its constituent parts. And making such unlikely connections is the essence of punning. Without learning to pun, we might just take speech at face value and wouldn't necessarily learn to hunt for deeper, different or related meanings.

we tear down the places where birds live, and put up places where people live, or places where people work to earn the money to pay for the places they live. We don't ask the birds for permission, nor do they complain about it. To a bird there is no tearing down or putting up.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The more you get done now, the less you'd have to do later!

President Obama endorsed same sex marriage in May, 2012, making headlines around the world. In

America continues to have the predominant global role on this issue, accelerated after President Obama endorsed same sex marriage in May, 2012 and the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in June, 2013. Though America was not the first to allow same sex marriage (Netherlands was first), it is leading the way, 'mothering' this issue to global acceptance.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, learn along the way, and keep moving. ~ Conrad Hilton

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ~ Peter Drucker

When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.

They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships. The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.