Quotes About Progress

We can change our lives for the better, and always have. We used to think pain during surgery and dying during childbirth were inevitable. We no longer accept that, and we shouldn't just accept aging.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

The Premier League used to be two teams going for the title, but it has come on a long way since then.

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

I used to skate around the rink with my mom, and we used to race each other until I started getting way better. Then she hung up her skates and resorted to playing my music at the rink.

I used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, 'Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.' It was just magic.

I used to only train 30 minutes a day.

I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Frustration is fuel that can lead to the development of an innovative and useful idea.

If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.