Quotes About Advancement

the burgeoning of research that had occurred since, internationally, and taking ever more sophisticated forms, had passed them by completely.

Technology—nobody knows more about technology than me.

The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both.

Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past.

Thomas Wazhashk: I am not sure what study the information about our advancement, financially speaking, was based on. But I will tell you it was faulty. Most of our people live on dirt floors, no electricity, no plumbing. I haul my own water like most Indians in this room. I consider myself advanced only because I read and write. Should I not be an Indian person because I read and write?

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.

He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it

You waste your energy going up and down instead of going forward.' She continued to walk calmly beside Felix.

The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won.

capitalization learning": we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given.

Proficimus more irretenti: "We make progress unhindered by custom.

the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed

computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the

the day when a computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would

manufacturing started in earnest. It was when all the rules by which

None of those things, though, will improve her math and reading skills, and every carefree summer day she spends puts her further and further behind Alex.

the systems we set up to determine who gets ahead aren't particularly efficient.

success follows a predictable course.

passed in those days for computer terminals. In 1971, this was state of the art. The University of Michigan had one of the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over

Proficimus more irretenti:

contraption that you could assemble at home. The headline on the story read: "PROJECT BREAKTHROUGH! World's

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of spe­cial opportunities that lead to further success.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.