Quotes About Progress

To get to his level in under a hundred fifty years illustrated a phenomenal achievement.

For now, we must reprogram the hyperdrive. There are a great many safety limiters to be removed.

There must be a way.

From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.

Machines served life, it could not be otherwise.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.

Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does." "No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

mental agency may be more usefully seen as a developing or constructed capacity.

women are obtaining undergraduate degrees at a far higher rate than men, and women are earning professional and doctorate degrees at a rate greater or nearly equal to that of men, but they are still vastly underrepresented in top leadership positions.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

The Hill People have an interesting relationship with the surrounding states. The people of the valleys view them as "living ancestors," even though they have formed as a response to the valley civilizations. They are post-state, not pre-state, but the ideology of the state refuses to recognize such a category as "post-state" because the state supposes itself to be the pinnacle of progress.

And I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Only the second-rate never make mistakes.

No permanecerán atentos si no les emociona la lucha de la fase central.

Do you think that when Barack Obama was a young boy in kindergarten, do think that sometimes he made mistakes?

Just make a mark and see where it takes you

Er zijn vrouwen die een soufflé kunnen maken. Die op het juiste moment een recept van mokkaparfait in hun sportbeha hebben zitten. Die met de ene hand hun eigen bruiloftstaart kunnen bouwen en met de andere pepersteak Nossi Bé maken. Daar moeten wij ons allen over verheugen. Als het maar niet betekent dat wij een slecht geweten moeten hebben omdat we de eerste beginselen van het brood roosteren nog niet onder de knie hebben.

Sentimentality will always be man's first revolt against development.

The same ideas that created the problem will not be able to solve it.