Quotes About Advancement

The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

If, like Galileo, you can make your master shine even more in the eyes of others, then you are a godsend and you will be instantly promoted.

Poor is the apprentice who does not surpass his master

Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?

I guess you're familiar with Moore's Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which basically means memory size and processing speed—will double every eighteen months, and costs will halve. Moore's Law has held with amazing consistency since 1965, and it still holds.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Reflection = Progress

This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind

All the knowledge that has led our species from wearing animal skins to people flying, complete with proofs, would fill a handful of reference books, but a bookcase the size of the earth would not suffice to hold all the rest, quite apart from the vast discussions that are conducted not with the pen but with the sword and chains.

Het valt niet te ontkennen dat wij in elke afzonderlijke tak van het menselijk kunnen zo veel vooruitgang boeken dat wij terecht het gevoel hebben het niet bij te kunnen houden; zou het niet mogelijk zijn dat daaruit ook het gevoel ontstaat dat wij geen vooruitgang beleven? Uiteindelijk is vooruitgang niets anders dan het resultaat van alle gezamenlijke inspanningen, en eigenlijk kun je dus al van tevoren zeggend at de werkelijke vooruitgang altijd juist dat zal zijn wat niemand wilde.

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

I just continued on with the story.

Many middle managers remain middle managers, failing to get promoted, because they know how to work with people below them, but not with people above them.

Keep in mind that today you can go from poor to rich faster than ever before.

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it. After

That machine's a great invention!" he said. "Other folks can stick to old-fashioned ways if they want to, but I'm all for progress. It's a great age we're living in. As long as I raise wheat, I'm going to have a machine come and thresh it, if there's one anywhere in the neighborhood.

To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.