Quotes About Advancement

sitting still" is just about the worst thing you can do. It's the new "going backward.

CANI for Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

The Singularity is Coming

As long as we can control our creations, though, truly enormous life-changing advantages will result. These could do everything for us and enrich our lives in ways we can only guess at the moment. It could be a golden age of progress and discovery that will benefit us all. Some experts predict this precisely, but others foresee something far grimmer. Who will be right? What do you think?

There ought to be a big fuss when people move up in the world.

Small opportunities can be the stepping stones towards greater responsibilities.

climbed higher up the tree and along

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

Personal growth might not be so bad after all, I decided.

these weeks and months of precious seniority slipping away – already Douglas of the Phoebe, Evans on the West Indies station, and a man he did not know called Raitt had been made; they were in the last Gazette and now they were ahead of him on the immutable list of post-captains; he would be junior to them for ever.

What is technology? It's technique. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it.

What made the Florentines rich in 1200 was the discovery of new techniques for making the high-tech product of the time, fine woven cloth. What made the Dutch rich in 1600 was the discovery of shipbuilding and navigation techniques that enabled them to dominate the seas of the Far East.

Technology should increase the gap in income, but it seems to decrease other gaps. A hundred years ago, the rich led a different kind of life from ordinary people. They lived in houses full of servants, wore elaborately uncomfortable clothes, and travelled about in carriages drawn by teams of horses which themselves required their own houses and servants. Now, thanks to technology, the rich live more like the average person.

The good globalization is technologically driven.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

No one can go back, but everyone can go forward.

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians

When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well.

And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

They were called turtle-boats and they were the first iron warships in history.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.