Quotes About Advancement

When man made fire, he lifted himself up, over, and above the animals. Fire is actually too good for people. Let us sit in front of one of these tiny, gleaming blazes and drink a little gin.

The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work.

Starting now and lasting until forever, your health and healthcare will be determined, to a remarkable and somewhat disquieting degree, by how well the technology works.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

As time passes, what was once an unpredictable step sideways becomes a definitive step forward for art.

We were developing a principle with the music box that we tried to stick with for the rest of our toy career," Ruth explained. "If you develop a basic mechanism or a basic concept, you develop one or two or three items around that concept at the initial introduction, and then year after year you add new products around the initial concept.

Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in.

big! You're growing

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

opposable thumbs than any prior.

each change, painful though some of them will be, will make us a little better than we were before.

ability promoted regardless of background.

We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement

Lois McMaster Bujold

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's corn bread-stale and dry.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This-- I held out my hands --this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

I never saw a man get superior so fast.

He defended them because he believed that every social interest should have its chance.

civilization?

But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity!

Luckily for Rockefeller, the lightbulb didn't instantly drive out kerosene: It took time for Edison to cover the country with power stations, and by 1885 only 250,000 lightbulbs shone across America.

Still, Tidewater pushed relentlessly ahead.

To mark their new financial status