Quotes About Progress

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

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till you get to the full Moon.

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Growth alone is not enough for a good society—but neither is happiness alone.

It is, in the long run, a good thing that machines or robots take over activities they can do, freeing humans for the things only they can do.

Generally any task that can be measured by the metrics of productivity—output per hour—is a task we want automation to do. In short, productivity is for robots.

GDP is the way we measure and compare how well or badly countries are doing. But this is not a question of measuring a natural phenomenon like land mass or average temperature to varying degrees of accuracy. GDP is a made-up entity. The concept dates back only to the 1940s.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new ideas. God knows I want new ideas and new experiences

Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

The only thing she could be certain of was that each day forward would carry the past

We planted a tree and it grew up. And so did we.

Critics may find this hard to believe, but students in American public schools today are studying and mastering far more difficult topics in science and mathematics than their peers forty or fifty years ago. People who doubt this should review the textbooks in common use then and now or look at the tests then and now.

Educators say that every child can learn, but they understand that children learn at different rates and that some inevitably learn more than others.

Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were not required to accept children with physical, mental, and emotional handicaps; when there were relatively few students who did not speak or read English; and when few graduated from high school and went to college.

Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.

Worrying was like sitting in a rocking chair—all that work and no progress.

My life had been frozen in time and now that I had permission to thaw, the world had changed.

God doesn't cause a demolition unless he's planned a renovation." Colonel Abbott Wilkins

The watershed of the sexual revolution was when women started to become individuals who claimed they were different in no essential way from men.