Quotes About Development

In soft regions are born soft men.

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world.

I'm surprised at you! If it will take ten years to make the machine with available technology, and only five years to make it with a new technology, and it will only take two years to invent the new technology, then you can do it in seven years by inventing the new technology first!

In the decades before Zero, the Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.

It wasn't only the Lorites who said that is not a new result. People re-invented the wheel all the time. There was nothing shameful in it. If the rest of us oohed and aahed and said, "Gosh, a wheel, no one's ever thought of that before," just to make that person feel good, nothing would ever get done.