Quotes About Advancement

Our task will be to advance Kenya's interests and ensure they are well served.

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

I've always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it's all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

The team has come along slow but fast.

We will accept any help we can as we attempt to keep moving forward to become a better team.

mature material. Where once he had hollered through

Politics is motion." John Sears

I love the modern technology now.

what he witnessed in his lifetime: the invention of the telephone, the transatlantic cable, the automobile, the airplane, and the introduction of modem warfare, with great armies massed

Six years after the Herald appeared,

lifetime: the invention of the telephone, the transatlantic cable, the automobile, the airplane, and the introduction of modem warfare, with great armies massed against each other, with tanks, armored cars, flame-throwers, and poison gas-a far cry from the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth

Measure your life by improvements rather than mistakes.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

The renowned British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead recognized this inescapable quality of modern life when he asserted that "civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." Take, for example, the "advance" offered to civilization by the discount coupon, which allows consumers to assume that they will receive a reduced purchase price by presenting the coupon.

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Over the past century and a half, we've gone from harnessing animals—and enduring all the shit they shat—to harnessing the subatomic motion of electrons.

MacBook is at least 1022 more powerful than those early computers that I started using half a century ago

eighteen-forties and fifties

But the Stalin school of organizational work differed from the Sverdlov in one fundamental aspect that Stalin did not mention: it applied a self-serving test in selecting candidates for advancement in the party hierarchy. No longer did it suffice to give good indication that one was a person of ability, energy, and devotion to the Bolshevik cause.