Quotes About Progress

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

The BJP works for the people. For development, for women, for the poorest of the poor. That is the ideology. I identify with it.

From one week to the next, everything changes from who you're playing to the defense's scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.

The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.