Quotes About Advancement

we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.

Connection and position lead to success.

Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern.

La technique se développe de façon indépendante, en dehors de tout contrôle humain.

Reac?iile noastre sunt determinate mai mult de interpretarea pe care o d?m evenimentelor decât de evenimentele în sine. S? vezi prin ochii altuia (privirea unei ter?e persoane este uneori util?), s? accep?i s?-?i repui în discu?ie convingerile este singura posibilitate de a avansa, de a evolua, de a te maturiza, de a cre?te.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

I had one more thing to add to my expanding world.

involution always precedes evolution

Entonces el derecho a la educación no sirve, Pati

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

One gains courage from the one in front of her and moves forward a few steps, passing her by just a little. Now the one farthest back gains courage from the one in front and moves forward until she, in turn, is the leader. And so in this way, taking courage from one another, they advance, as a group, towards the strange thing in front of them.

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lynn Thorndike

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

Computers and the World of the Future,

By the summer of 1972, says Thacker, "it was personal-computer time, just like it was railroad time in the eighteen-fifties.

the IBM 650, as it came to be called, would eventually become known as the Model T of the computer industry, the first mass-market computer.

The Alto was certainly not the first personal computer; that honor has to go to Wes Clark's LINC, if not to Clark's TX-0, or even to Jay Forrester's Whirlwind. But it was the first machine that most of us would recognize as a personal computer.

PARC had given them something magical: an Alto-Ethernet—laser printer—GUI system that was like nothing else on the planet.

Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 1830s through ENIAC in the 1940s,

There had never before been a machine that was this much in front of the competition. And never since. It was a singular event.