progress Quotes

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.