Quotes About Progress

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn't work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and you've essentially insulated yourself against a planetary apocalypse? Maybe that's enough.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

The free enterprise system does not leave people behind.

In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia. There was fundamental economic reform. There was a new constitution and an electoral system built from scratch. But the judicial system was probably the most difficult to reform.

We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.

We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

The whole process to raise stars is very systematic.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won't happen overnight, but if you're systematic about it, the process will work.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.

There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.