Quotes About Advancement

The choice of the word "progress" is deliberate. It represents movement toward a goal or aspiration.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. —Sir Francis Bacon

Perhaps his life might have veered elsewhere if the US government had opened the country to colored advancement like they opened the army. But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.

Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

The publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or an invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts.

South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.

Perhaps his life might have veered elsewhere if the US government had opened the country to colored advancement like they opened the army. But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door. The GI Bill fixed things pretty good for the white boys he served with, but the uniform meant different things depending who wore it. What was the point of a no-interest loan when a white bank won't let you step inside?

With some exceptions, the enemies of the future aim their attacks not at creativity itself but at the dynamic processes through which it is carried.

To reverse Arthur C. Clarke's famous adage about magic, any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Did nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, condoned his meanness and acquiesced in his torture.

We stumble up—we stumble on.

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

First two cells to diddle each other's genes: 'I'm only doing this, Anita, because I want your descendants to be an improvement on you.' 'Egotist.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

You can't step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Small steps will have transformational results.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Calling something "work" doesn't make it a more noble use of time than anything else. Work that doesn't advance you toward the life you want is still wasted time. You will never get those hours back, and we only get so many. Wrote Shakespeare in Richard II, "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Of low extraction, and a person of weak character, his advancement must always be regarded with wonder.

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