Quotes About Progress

Man's place is to be the first without being the last . . . . [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

the story of our agricultural revolution as told by some of the earliest victims of that revolution.

And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you're the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.

reversing millions of years of human development by devouring all cultures on this planet and turning them into a single culture, our own.

I can confidently predict that if the world is saved, it will not be because some old minds came up with some new programs. Programs never stop the things they're launched to stop. No program has ever stopped poverty, drug abuse, or crime, and no program ever will stop them. And no program will ever stop us from devastating the world.

Like our imaginary airman, they were totally unaware that there is a law that must be complied with in order to achieve civilizational flight.

And with each new comfort, with each new modern convenience, man slowly dies. He removes himself from his humanity.

So in a way it was true: as I grew, he shrank. And by this logic one day I would become a giant, and Edward would become nothing, invisible in the world. B

Lives have a way of getting on with themselves. But in the short run it will be hard.

He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All

La ignorancia sólo es motivo de vergüenza si se decide no corregirla

Transformation always requires radical action.

Nobody here wants to be awful, he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.

You know, I'm very near to bein' normal, but I just can't get over the hump.

would go up the learning curve only once." These

Mary Barra of GM said. "But they're going to have multiple ways that they can do that." Her ultimate goal, she said, is "a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

The "triad"—the convergence of electric vehicles, ride hailing, and self-driving cars—is far from sure.

in a manner reminiscent of the British and German battleships before World War I, fifth-generation cellular—5G—along with Huawei has become in this era the embodiment of the new rivalry.

every system has within it the seeds of its own destruction

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On April 26, 1956, cranes at the port of Newark, New Jersey, lifted up fifty-eight truck bodies, minus their wheels and cabins, and put them on a surplus World War II tanker bound for Texas. "We are convinced that we have found a way to combine the economy of water transportation with the speed and flexibility of overland shipment," McLean announced.

No new car company had been started in the United States since 1925.

In 1900, electrics far outnumbered gasoline cars on the streets in New York City. No one was a more powerful advocate of the electric car than the great inventor Thomas Edison, who poured a lot of his own money, along with his reputation and effort, into trying to perfect an electric vehicle.

two things killed that first generation of electric cars. One was Henry Ford's Model T and the mass production of the assembly line. The other, though less well known, was the electric starter, invented by Charles Kettering in 1911 for Cadillac after a person died from cranking a car. Kettering's invention eliminated the need for someone to stand in front and crank. Over the next several years, electric cars faded away.