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Quotes About Progress

We don't use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.
~ Julie Klausner
I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.
~ Kasey Chambers
I think in this day and age it's very important.
~ Lizzy Plapinger
I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.
~ Marisa Silver
At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
~ Isaac Newton
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
~ Craig Venter
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
~ Gray Scott
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
~ Ma Jun
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
~ Thom Mayne
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
~ Mao Zedong
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
~ John Stuart Mill
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The doer alone learneth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
~ Albert Camus
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted
~ Dan Simmons
Leave the atom alone.
~ E. Y. Harburg
The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
~ Wavy Gravy
I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
~ Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
~ Leigh Steinberg
Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.
~ Paul Oakenfold