Quotes About Development

The larger lesson is that technological development does not necessarily mean civilized values ~~ we all have to remain on guard. Humans, unlike robots, have the power to choose how to behave.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

People who tried to start at an advanced age, meaning over fourteen, had, in my experience, almost no chance of becoming proficient, and usually suffered pain and sorrow before they quit.

Magicians are not made, they make themselves.

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

As we brew, we must bake

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

We cannot now stir a step in our life without capital. We cannot build a school, a hospital, a church, or employ a missionary society, without capital, any more than we could build a palace or a factory without capital. We

Social improvement is not to be won by direct effort. It is secondary, and results from physical or economic improvements. That

Every improvement in education, science, art, or government expands the chances of man on earth. Such expansion is no guarantee of equality. On

Capital, however, as we have seen, is the force by which civilization is maintained and carried on. The

The reason why man is not altogether a brute is, because he has learned to accumulate capital, to use capital, to advance to a higher organization of society, to develop a completer co-operation, and so to win greater and greater control over Nature.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Hang out with people who are better than you and you cannot help but improve." Pabrai acts on this advice to a degree that would horrify many people. "When I meet someone for the first time, I evaluate them afterwards and say, 'Will it make me better or worse to have a relationship with this person?'" If the answer is worse, he says, "I'll cut him out.

Do you believe that you really have a desire to learn, or would you, had you been left alone from birth, be totally primitive and beastlike in your thoughts and feelings?

You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity.

Sprawl is bad aesthetics; it is bad economics. Five acres are being made to do the work of one, and do it very poorly.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Cada vez que los sentidos entran en contacto con algún objeto, los cuatro procesos mentales se suceden a la velocidad del rayo y se repiten en cada momento de contacto subsiguiente; lo hacen a tal velocidad que no tenemos consciencia de lo que sucede, esta consciencia sólo se desarrolla hasta llegar al nivel consciente cuando una reacción determinada se ha repetido durante un largo período de tiempo y ha tomado una forma pronunciada e intensa.