Quotes About Advancement

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

While I was despairing and thinking everything was lost, it was quietly growing. I thought that parting was always final. Now I know that growing is a kind of parting. To grow means to leave something behind. And there is no end to it.

the Kodak being a new kind of portable camera that eliminated the need for lens and shutter adjustments.

If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it was particularly glaring in the twentieth century – and, I would add (so far), the twenty-first too.

Nothing, sad to say, has advanced technical progress faster than war.

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world. We move from happens-to, to makes-happen. But

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world.

So I did something that you're not supposed to do, one more addition to an expanding universe of said things.

All of the technology described in this book is either currently being tested on the launch pad or in advance stages of development. This is a story of the very near future.

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

The machines won, sister. We're just in denial.

One of the reasons why people come to America is that there are fewer speed bumps to the top of the ladder in comparison with other countries.

Progress is the principle of the human race

In Technology, whatever can be done will be done

facilitating

It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.

Lepiej bez celu i?? naprzód ni? bez celu sta? w miejscu, a z pewnoÅ›ciÄ… o niebo lepiej, ni? bez celu siÄ™ cofa?.

Leading is doing. To lead, I must move forward.

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I'm not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.