Quotes About Advancement

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

We don't want so much to see a female Einstein become an assistant professor. We want a woman schlemiel to get promoted as quickly as a male schlemiel.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

A little damage could only be an improvement

Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

We used to wait for our electronics to warm up, now it's our software.

The problem with buttering up the boss is that bosses tend to move on, which can mean a lot of wasted butter.

But he accomplished what he set out to do, multiplying the firm's profits many times over.

eliminating it would be a big step backward.

I don't think we're there yet, but we're getting closer.

I knew it was a hard sell, but I wanted the idea to remain under consideration.

Making a robot that simulates what a human does has value, but I'm more attracted to making supertools that dramatically amplify human abilities by a hundred- or thousand-fold.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

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

We may make these times better, if we better ourselves.

This flattered my vanity; but my father discouraged me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one; but as prose writing had been of great use to me in the course of my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I have in that way.

the rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it. —Henny Youngman

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.