Quotes About Advancement

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

The price to sequence a base [of the human genome] has fallen 100 million times. That's the equivalent of you filling up your car with gas in 1998, waiting until 2011, and now you can drive to Jupiter and back twice.

We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

But people keep outgrowing their outgrowing

It is interesting to note, harking back again to the exponential growth of information technology, that the hardware on which Watson ran in 2011 was said to be about the size of the average bedroom. Today, we are told, it runs on a machine that is the size of three pizza boxes, and by the early 2020s Watson will sit comfortably in a smartphone.

The Canadian science-fiction writer William Gibson could well have been speaking of technology in the professions when he said: '[t]he future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Lighter laptops followed (our first one had a 10mb hard disk; today one of our laptops, at about one-third of the weight, has flash storage of 1 terabyte—100,000 times larger in thirty years).

Watson Doesn't Know It Won on "Jeopardy!

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

We Have Not Yet Built Our Defining Product

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

slow at first … just a very gradual inching upwards … up, up, up … inch by inch … getting taller and taller … about an inch every few

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward. When they're at F, God calls them to G. When we're at L, God calls us to M. And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. Robert A. Heinlein

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.

I was promoted to corporal. I was promoted seven times. To corporal.

I tell you, the slide rule is the greatest invention since girls.

What is not-tuned-in by the best scientific instruments of 1986 may easily be tuned-in in 1987, for all we know.

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

The most important speaks to the issue of character and integrity, traits noted in many of his ERs. He was more concerned with the welfare of his men than with his own advancement, a rare trait in the Air Force and a sign of a great leader.

The arrows. What they mean is, you control who you are by moving forward, never back; you move forward. That's what I do. That's what we're going to do.

Mahan held that a nation must expand or decline—for it was impossible for a nation to hold its own while standing still.