Quotes About Progress

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

My idea is that we've worked so many years for equality, but the only area where we've achieved equality, with men, is in job loss. We are still 77 cents to the dollar.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.