Quotes About Advancement

In many professional spaces, women are fighting twice as hard as men to get to the same place and get the same opportunities. If you then speak out about your experience of sexual harassment, there is every chance you will not be sent on certain assignments.

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.

I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.

I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing 'Wonder Woman 2,' I thought, 'Well, these are so intense, making these movies. It's a lot to think about doing more.' But then I had an epiphany, and I thought, 'Oh, it's not more - it's better.'

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

I spent the first 18 years of my career at AT&T, and it was a wonderful place that kept me moving all the time. I mean, I started off as entry level a position as you can get at AT&T.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Good work has a snowball effect, it keeps leading to more good work.

This country is based on a simple bargain, and that bargain is if you work hard, you get to get ahead.

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

The main thing is I've tried to get better at everything - that includes the attacking side, being a threat, and taking people on.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

Certainty, and the innovation that thrives in a climate of certainty, are key to progress.

You can always get better throwing the football.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

Robotics, manufacturing, medicine, farming, energy - all will be pushed to and beyond their limits and, by so doing, will advance at speeds far faster than without the impetus and challenge of opening a frontier - thus also raising the odds of survival in our favor.