Quotes About Advancement

We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

All progress is experimental.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Life is a work in progress.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.