Quotes About Advancement

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

All that stands between the college graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.

Different isn't always better, but better is always different.

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

A stagnant navy," noted one maritime scholar, "was no place for a man on the make.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

And this is the stuff," said he to himself, "that makes possible the civilization that produces them.

Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it.

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I hope for some sort of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.

Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Patient endurance is a sign of progress.

man becomes a little cog in the machine, and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is to become a bigger cog. —Max Weber,

Como demostraba la experiencia del Modelo T de Ford, incluso el más diestro fabricante de un producto con costes reducidos al mínimo podía verse superado y atrapado por un producto mejor.