Quotes About Progress

Ferdinand took advantage of the most advanced education in Portugal

thanks to the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator, algebra, geometry, astronomy, and navigation.

Three hundred and

way to earning a place in history. In the intervening months, he passed a series of tests

Darwin felt that he was peering through eons to the dawn of human society. He judged them

Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth. Parks, good governance, and smoothly flowing traffic are optional, not required. Sometimes cities grow at an astonishing rate, despite being hell on Earth.

Far less tragic—and certainly less attention-grabbing—was a second, very profound event that also happened in 2008. Its exact timing will never be known, but at some instant during the year, the number of people living in urban areas grew to briefly match, for a few seconds, the number of people living in rural areas. Then, somewhere, a city baby was born. From that child forward, for the first time in our history, the human race became urban in its majority.

We are becoming universal humans.

Water never stops and says, 'Here I am. This is me.' It is forever in motion and twisting and turning into new forms every moment.

Leading scientists and philosophers such as Nick Bostrom, contend that if an advanced civilization created us, most probably this 'advanced civilization' is also a creation of an even more advance civilization.

Stagnation equals death. A stagnant pond eventually becomes mud. A human being, whose biological system becomes stagnant, dies. There must be movement in the waters! The Waters of Life cannot flow in a clogged and stagnant human being.

Humankind creates the world.

If you keep thinking your usual thoughts and doing your usual habitual actions, then the NEW and DIFFERENT cannot enter into your LIFE!

Doing magick without knowing oneself is like driving a car with the emergency brake on.

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

Work is done by those [employees] who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Good followers do not become good leaders.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.