Quotes About Advancement

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invisible companion. ... I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning, I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Every step, even a tentative one, counts.

What's the point of living if you don't try to do things better?

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

They say the best way to complain is to make things better.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Every day you stay is a bad strategic decision for your career because every day you get better at something that isn't that useful—and you are another day behind others who are learning something more useful.

If you're trying to succeed in a job or a relationship or at a task, you're either moving forward, falling behind, or standing still. There are only three choices. To

Ship your work. It's good enough. Then, make it better.

The person who leans forward the most wins the race.

There's a gap in the market where your version of better can make a welcome change happen.

William Gibson has said, "The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed.

Moore's law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.

She tried to clear her mind. She knew she needed to return to the war, already in progress.

You didn't do anything illegal, and you shouldn't be penalized just because the technology outpaced the theology.

My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people are still people. They're killing each other to get more to prove a point only the killer understands. Still brutalizing and torturing each other over things that in another hundred years won't even matter.

Move forward with purpose

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.