Quotes About Advancement

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Ignorance is no obstacle to advancement, matter of fact in some cases it is quite an advantage.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals.

Sou um caminhante lento, mas nunca caminho para trás.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

what is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.

A direct tax upon the wages of labour, therefore, though the labourer might perhaps pay it out of his hand, could not properly be said to be even advanced by him, at least if the demand for labour and the average price of provisions remained the same after the tax as before it. In all such cases, not only the tax but something more than the tax would in reality be advanced by the person who immediately employed him.

Everyone is interested in what's new. Few people are interested in what's better.

How quickly all the advantages of technological civilisation are wiped out by a domestic squabble. At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and aeroplanes to Australasia, we would still have trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones and apologise for our tantrums?

a supernatural instrument before whose miracle we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream

In the old days he would have taken to the block. Now he was taken to New Zealand and given the role of high commissioner. It was the block, but it took longer.

Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead

Building better worlds

I've decided 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.