Quotes About Advancement

VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

When one begins at the bottom, ascendance is a given.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Science grows like a weed every year.

the idea of ever-growing output fits snugly with the widely used metaphor of progress being a movement forwards and upwards.

You want your efforts to pay off. You are hoping that your hard work and go-big-or-go-home undertakings will lead to a terrific promotion or fabulous new job up the ladder. In other words, you want the success you've been gunning for. So

as long as you end up with the opportunities and credit you need. You

Let's say you ask your boss if you can travel to an annual industry convention, and she says yes. You end up making some key contacts who down the road introduce you to others. That's a compound effect.

Piped-in water on every floor and multiple water closets and baths had been feasible since the mid-eighteenth century, but few people, even prosperous ones, took advantage of the technology until a century later.

they put their faith in their intellectual assets and attained material success with admirable speed. To speak in everyday language: they got somewhere in life.

For the record, everything new is not worse than everything old.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind, A.J.

The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval church of actively opposing the advancement of scientific learning, the other praising the medieval church and its theology for laying a foundation that made modern science possible.

What starts out linear becomes geometric. You

As you experience big, you become big.

Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest success possible.

making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." — Thomas Henry Huxley

Aunque estés en el buen camino, te arrollarán si lo único que haces es quedarte ahí sentado». Will Rogers

He didn't have to be perfect. Seek progress, not perfection, I told him.

Quantum computers that would boggle your mind, space elevators that raise heavy cargo through the air and into orbit, tourist trips to the moon, teleportation—all of these things will happen in the not-too-distant future.