Quotes About Advancement

all of life is a movement toward perfection

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me… signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe.

I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

To live in today's world is not only to have access to all the best that has come before, but also to have a breadth and ease of access that is incomparably greater than that enjoyed even by our parents, let alone earlier generations.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

This long lapse of time may be divided into four periods, called Ages: 1. The Rough Stone Age. 2. The Polished Stone Age. 3. The Bronze Age. 4. The Iron Age. The

The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.

Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.

To try to be better is to be better.

Most readily measure the inches and feet of life's ups and downs, but it is only the foot forward that really counts.

La conscience morale de l'humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement...

Last century's magic is this year's science.

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell

But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.

I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward. And so I walked on.

Most software that is written is either re-implementing existing concepts or building upon and extending them in new ways.

None of the recent technologies that have changed the world and created wealth—telecom, computers, aviation—have come out of India. Yet