Quotes About Advancement

As you may have noticed, things are racing along in technology space (where no one can hear you scream).

Times do keep changing - thank God.

We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

If you don't create new opportunities within the confines of your "day job," they may never come your way.

If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.

I want a job, Lady Carey. It isn't enough to be a councillor, I need an official place in the household." "I'll tell her." "I want a post in the Jewel House. Or the Exchequer." She nods. "She made Tom Wyatt a poet. She made Harry Percy a madman. I'm sure she has some ideas about what to make you.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

Who does not grow, declines.

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place," she reads. "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

We have come a long way on that old molecule.

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But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.