Quotes About Development

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .

There seemed to be nothing that contributed more to squalor than a bunch of basalt-block structures designed to lift people out of squalor.

But reality cannot be ignored; we must grow up.

The man contains—not the boy—but earlier men

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere.

History is passing us by.

The mortal human only anticipates as a lower lifeform, the form to come....

Don't let anybody kid you about the wheel, son; money was mankind's first significant invention.

He built, and the more he built the more he enjoyed building. By now the city was over eighty miles deep and five miles in diameter. The whole island had been converted into a single vast city that honeycombed and interlaced farther each day. Eventually it would reach the land beyond the ocean; then the work would begin in earnest.

You're confusing technology with culture. You look at this and say, 'What a great civilization man has built,' when you really mean, 'What a great technology mankind has developed.' There's all the difference in the world. Technology is of the mind and hands. Civilization is of the spirit—and spiritually we are still in the Dark Ages.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.

Sargon grew up as a gardener

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally," said Grumman. "We have to learn everything we do.

That's interesting," said Dr. Lieberson. "History's not over, you see. It's happening all the time.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

you will make mistakes on a scale you can't even dream of now—because there is no other way to reach the end.

Inhibition doesn't grow on trees, you know—takes patience, takes concentration, takes a dedicated and self-sacrificing parent and a hard-working attentive little child to create in only a few years' time a really constrained and tight-ass human being.

Their reasons for asking us to be both law-abiding and superior were not reasons we could find the conscience to discount, and so control that was close to absolute was ceded to adults who were striving and improving themselves through us.

At a certain point, we're either gonna have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time do I spend being passively entertained? And how much time do I spend doing stuff that actually isn't all that much fun minute by minute, but that builds certain muscles in me as a grown-up and a human being?