Quotes About Progress

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.

Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones

Homo sapiens sapiens, the shy, murderous ape, may be spreading pestilence and pollution on a global scale, but his violent instincts at least seem to have been triumphantly tamed.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

You can't outrun the history train

The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

Fail often and fail cheap.

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

Kendimi yeterince sevmediÄŸim için daha sonraya kaç?yorum hep ve bunun sonucu da ÅŸu oluyor: Kendimi daha az seviyorum; bu amans?z ilerleyiÅŸ, kendimi kendi gözümde küçük düÅŸürüyor.

As our knowledge of DNA expands, and our expertise in genetic manipulation increases, the concept of humanity may well become redundant.

You have to move on. You know it, deep

I argued that such an approach stood logic on its head. All disasters, all loss, all suffering, demonstrate that there cannot possibly be a God, for why would a deity who is omnipotent create a universe so prone to disaster and accident? Religious faith, I argued, was invented in order to pacify the grieving multitudes and ensure they did not ask the really difficult questions, which if answered, would tend to lead to progress.

El sistema de las escuelas de arte constituyó la base del empuje que el Reino Unido tendría en el futuro en el mundo del arte, la publicidad, el sector editorial, el cine y la moda.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose.

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

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