Quotes About Advancement

Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.

Focus and move forward.

Where we begin is not necessarily our starting point. Every journey has it's mileposts.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

No matter how mad, bad, and dangerous to know a civilization gets, unto every generation are born the lonely and the uncool, destined to forever stare into the candy-store window of their culture, and loneliness is the mother of ascension. Only the uncool have the requisite alone time to advance their species.

Only the uncool have the requisite alone time to advance their species. And so it was that, eventually, between drawing meatship schematics in the dirt and dreaming of a world where she didn't hate literally everyone, the shiest and most sensitive of Yurtmaks began to plan the most ambitious massacre in the history of the galaxy: the murder of stupidity.

we'll have weather control by 2015,

At the present rate of technical development, electronic mail is probably no more than one or two decades away, so in the Tehaneys' world of 2081 it will have been taken for granted long since.

In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them."19

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

processor performance doubles roughly every eighteen months, but memory performance doubles roughly every seven years.

You have to learn and keep learning.

feedings increased first during the next growth

Oh holy asinity! holy ignorance! Holy foolishness and pious devotion! You who alone do more to advance and make souls good Than human ingenuity and study...

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all." Dave Barry

We're not having a revolution, but an evolution.

Altogether I've seen enough change to have faith that more will come.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

You've got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

You might be a firefighter if "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement.