Quotes About Progress

For me, I met my husband when I was going full steam ahead of what I wanted in my career. We sort of intersected and were like, 'Oh, hi, hello!' We were both on our way somewhere to speak and then just kept going together.

If you don't seize that moment you sort of fall behind and get left in the smoke, so it's full steam ahead.

The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.

I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that's empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It's up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.

Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

I've had a stellar career.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.

We need to beef up STEM education.

STEM education is an area where we can't afford to leave anyone behind.

As Governor, expanding access to STEM programs for students has been a top priority of mine.

I'm extremely happy and extremely grateful to these stem cells. I started tennis again, and it's going very well. I have no problem moving my arm. So I'm delighted.

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.