Quotes About Advancement

To acknowledge that the lives of the lower and middle classes of developed countries have improved in recent decades is not to deny the formidable problems facing 21st-century economies.

No matter how old you are, you have more years ahead of you than people of your age did in earlier decades and centuries.

progress is an outcome not of magic but of problem-solving.

A dollar today, no matter how heroically adjusted for inflation, buys far more betterment of life than a dollar yesterday. It buys things that didn't exist, like refrigeration, electricity, toilets, vaccinations, telephones, contraception, and air travel, and it transforms things that do exist, such as a party line patted by a switchboard operator to a smartphone with unlimited talk time.

The Enlightenment is an ongoing process of discovery and betterment.

As impressive as the conquest of infectious disease in Europe and America was, the ongoing progress among the global poor is even more astonishing.

As has been said about science, sometimes society advances funeral by funeral.

technology expert Kevin Kelly has proposed that "over time, if a technology persists long enough, its costs begin to approach (but never reach) zero.

If the pie we were dividing in 1700 was baked in a standard nine-inch pan, then the one we have today would be more than ten feet in diameter.

progress" unguided by humanism is not progress.

Among the reasons there was no such crisis was that cathode-ray tubes were superseded by liquid crystal displays made of common elements.

In some ways the world has become less equal, but in more ways the world's people have become better off.

If you had to choose a moment in history to be born, and you did not know ahead of time who you would be—you didn't know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you'd be born in, whether you were going to be a man or a woman—if you had to choose blindly what moment you'd want to be born, you'd choose now. —Barack Obama, 2016

A positive-sum game is a scenario in which agents have choices that can improve the lots of both of them at the same time. A

The schooling, together with health and wealth, are literally making us smarter—by thirty IQ points, or two standard deviations above our ancestors.

Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Always place your becoming above your current being.

You're not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!

You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.

If you start with little you start with more possibility.

That's the other, far more optimistic lesson of Price's law and the Pareto distribution: those who start to have will probably get more.

No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.