Quotes About Advancement

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

Improvement usually means doing something we have never done before.

It is the leap from the age of territory to the age of science.

I will ensure that Japan keeps getting better--better this year than last year, and better next year than this year.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

Progressive' means that success is a journey, not a destination. It's an ongoing process. We never arrive.

Technology makes the world a new place.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Just because it was done well, doesn't mean it couldn't have been done better.

Today's Success is tomorrow's Stepping Stone....

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Less flapping, more flying!

That was the real triumph of the revolution, Napoleon thought with a slight nod. A man might rise as high as any on the basis of merit alone, and not because of some accident of birth. That was why France would win, in the end. For what nation could hope to stand against a nation of men free to pursue their ambitions?

The way of thinking has to be aligned with age and if not, it has to be advanced.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.

I'd like to be known just as a good worker in the vineyard who held his own and contributed generally to the advancement of the law." Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, 1970–1994, author of the Roe v. Wade decision. Section 5, Lot 40-4, Map Grid V/W-36, Arlington National Cemetery.

I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened; that we had started making better machines than people.

We split the atom, we reached the moon, we've filled every household and business with more gadgets and gizmos than early sci-fi writers could have ever dreamed of.

RYSSDAL: Suck on that, Elon Musk. TONY: No, no, I love Elon, he's a good guy, but he does have some catching up to do.

His point was that each positive step a person takes should be encouraged, rather than highlighted for what it lacks.

each positive step a person takes should be encouraged, rather than highlighted for what it lacks.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.