Quotes About Advancement

We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

Humans transform the world through our creative technologies, and we cannot survive without them.

Engineers are, by definition, people whose work is dedicated to making people's lives easier; or, as people used to say, whose work is dedicated to progress.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Everyone learns every day as its capability on every step.

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

The cure for grief is motion.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember. Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

they are often milestones on the journey toward

Bigger the bluffer/bootlicker/duffer ; better the chance for that employee to go up the corporate ladder oft faster, attain higher position,remain mostly happier in job/career and often spend a long tenure with a single employer in the private sector.

always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for.

You can never go back, really, there is only forward.

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability, and intensifies the concentration of wealth, responsibility and political power.

Today things are better than yesterday.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Improvement begins with I.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.