Quotes About Progress

As early as the 1830s Charles Babbage had managed to construct a "Difference Engine" which could perform simple sums, but he soon became preoccupied with the far more complicated "Analytical Engine" which could add, subtract, multiply and divide as well as solve both algebraic and numerical equations; it had also been able to print out the results of its calculations onto stereotype plates. This was the engine which Gissing had come to see.

Many of the roads loosely known as 'Roman roads' are much more ancient; the Romans simply made use of the prehistoric paths. Modern roads have been built along the routes of these ancient lines, so that we still move in the footsteps of our ancestors.

Those who pursue the process of living are those who create the history

It may be noted, in parenthesis, that in this period the coach was introduced to England

Her principal tutor, Roger Ascham, reported that at the age of sixteen 'the constitution of her mind is exempt from female weakness, and she is endowed with a masculine power of application.

Many of the developments that have been described as Norman in fact represented only the acceleration of English custom.

The camera observed me, but there was nothing in my bag except a pashmina, purse, and Lorazepam. I carried emptiness. Doors opened. Another camera recorded my progress. Doubtless there were thousands of my days repeated thus, interred digitally in limbo. I ascended two steps with nothing to look forward to

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man

S]ocial change is not clearly linear and rarely totally beneficial or detrimental. Social change nearly nearly always produces positive and negative effects that are distributed differentially in the affected population.

Als Leitwissenschaft für eine lebensfähige und lebenswerte menschliche Zukunft kommt mithin nur eine als Humanwissenschaft verstandene Geistes-, Kultur-und Sozialwissenschaft in Frage, die zwar vom Erkenntnis- und Erfahrungsraum der Naturwissenschaften ausgeht, sich jedoch nicht als deren bloßes Anhängsel versteht, sondern vielmehr auf die Selbstdefinitions- und -sublimationsmacht des Menschen als eines Geist-und Sozialwesens vertraut.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

Anyone can fight a battle that's easy to win. It's fighting the battles that are impossible to win that causes humanity to take those great leaps forward.

Fore-runners

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Effectiveness must be learned.

Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop.

You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits

People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature—without any more effort than is expended by the nonachievers.

bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

3. Finally, don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present! An innovation may have long-range impact; it may not reach its full maturity until twenty years later.

If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow.

The earlier changes are discerned, the earlier the opportunities they create can be converted into innovations.

This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.

The brilliant insight is not by itself achievement