Quotes About Progress

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

Optimizing Oracle response time is, for the most part, a solved problem.

We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us.

THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING

She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

That's the problem with life. Things seldom stay the same do they? And the future rarely turns out quite the way we expect.

Setbacks are stepping stones to something better.

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.

All entrepreneurial and technological ventures, according to a canonical paper by the productivity theorist Robert Gordon, face the closing of the world's "productivity frontier.

Gilder shows how, to the contrary, Israel's growing prosperity will benefit the entire region in which it is located.

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

Nothing that a man did yesterday excuses him today. Quite the reverse, if a man did nothing yesterday, no demands are made upon him today; if he did anything yesterday, it means that he must do more today. This certainly does not mean that it is better to do nothing. Whoever does nothing receives nothing.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn...the day of the dictator is over.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

It is unwise to make your personal happiness dependent upon your first having created a more civilized human culture. Because your hoped-for culture is most probably dependent for its creation upon your first having personally achieved greater happiness yourself.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.