Quotes About Development

You can't be born again, but you can change.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

While we must always begin from where we are, we need not stay where we are.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Any complex technology is the product of many antecedents. Destroy the infrastructure of a society supporting such technology and, though the knowledge itself might not be lost, the society would lose the basis on which the tech was built. Members of a human civilization bombed back into the Stone Age are hardly going to be able to build computers from flint and wood.

So we have transitioned from bugger off to philosophy now?

What I have found over and over is that, once we have made short-term changes, they tend to change our long-term habits.

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Because people develop ADT in an effort to cope with the stresses in their lives, and because the symptoms actually help them in the short term, the symptoms are "sticky" and may solidify into firm habits, even when life slows and becomes less stressful.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say "I'll never be good". You can become better! and one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.

Getting through Lake Tahoe was already like L.A., with construction all over the place

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

Tr? em ??n tr??ng vá»›i nh?ng d?u ch?m h?i và ra tr??ng vá»›i nh?ng d?u ch?m h?t.

To which we might add that every epistemology is the epistemology of a stage of media development. Truth, like time itself, is a product of a conversation man has with himself about and through the techniques of communication he has invented.

Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization—not to mention their reason for being—reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.

In tabulating the cost of technological progress, Freud takes a rather depressing line, that of a man who agrees with Thoreau's remark that our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end.

The most effective selling strategy during this phase is to uncover dissatisfaction in the account and to develop that dissatisfaction until it reaches the critical mass.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

I'd rather keep changing and lose people along the way. If that's the price, I'll pay it.

I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Children always grow faster than their parents' image of them.

And instead of their advanced state in science being attributable to a superior development of intellectual faculties,…it is solely owing to…their innate thirst for blood and plunder.