Quotes About Progress

the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.

but cheap transportation made all these things available to the masses.'°

Since all countries around the world began poor, what requires an explanation is not why there is poverty but how some countries rose out of poverty to become prosperous.

Entre 1978 y 1995, China tuvo una espectacular tasa de crecimiento del 9 por ciento anual como consecuencia de la liberación de los precios que siguió a la muerte de Mao en 1976. Esto contrasta con los graves problemas económicos que tenía China a causa de las medidas de fuerte control gubernamental promovidas por ese líder comunista.

As Edmund Burke said, more than two centuries ago, "In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from past errors and infirmities of mankind." But he warned that the past could also be a means of "keeping alive, or reviving, dissensions and animosities.

1870, Britain produced 32 percent of all the manufactured goods in the world, followed by the United States at 23 percent and Germany at 13 percent.

The world's first university chair in engineering was founded in Glasgow in 1840.2'x

Between 1978 and 1995, China had a spectacular growth rate of 9 percent per annum as a result of the price liberalization that followed Mao's death in 1976. This is in contrast to the serious economic problems that China had due to the strong government control measures promoted by that communist leader.

Not until human nature itself progresses morally will the majority of people prefer peaceful and boring market relations to the violent and exciting relations between coercer and coerced, predator and victim.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years.

He was the complete male in miniature, the tiny acorn from which the mighty oak must grow, the heir of all ages, the inheritor of unfulfilled renown, the child of progress, the darling of the budding Golden Age, and, what's more, Fortune and her Fairies, not content with well-nigh smothering him with their blessings of time and family, saved him up carefully until Progress was rotten-ripe with Glory.

Finally, only thirty or forty million years before, our earliest ancestors had crawled out of the primeval slime; and then, no doubt, finding the change unpleasant, crawled back in again.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Events of future history will be of the same nature - or nearly so - as the history of the past, so long as men are men.

Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history

Everything is an experiment.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

There's always stuff to work on. You're never there.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part

Don't let your history become your destiny.

We would all prefer to see much further ahead. We want the road map and to know the short cuts. But usually we only have enough light for the next step. To get anywhere we must take that.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Here's the thing about failure in innovation: it's a price worth paying. We