Quotes About Development

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Training is anchored in the past. Education looks to the future.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefor objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

The Proletarian Cultural Revolution, ushered in with so much fanfare and promise for the Chinese masses, had not really changed their lives or given them new opportunities for development. The Chinese people continued to struggle against poverty, shortages, and lack of choice. The Cultural Revolution had merely created a new set of circumstances to which at least the young workers were adjusting with cynicism and audacity.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

They had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble.

Cuantas más demoliciones, mayor sensación de actividad municipal.

Relationship is not all about starting but how it goes.

We have torn down the worst slums. The natural meeting-points for the lumpenproletariat have been eliminated, converted into pleasant, dull, clean blocks for dull, clean, adapted families. In the absence of ghettos for the losers, they gather around the centres of pride. If Harlem and its equivalents did not exist, they would gather outside the Rockefeller Center.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Neoteny, the choice not to metamorphose. If it was good for the axolotl, then it was good for Consuelo.

It's never enough," he repeated, "but it is so much more than we had before. Without the Millennium project there would be no drugs, there would be no surgical equipment, there would be no way to operate the generator—I would be redundant most of the time. They say funding will continue, but someday it will stop, and when the funding stops, most likely everything we have done will be put to waste. I do not see how we are going to continue after they have left.

For it is better -- is it not? -- to attempt to change things slowly than not to strive for progress at all.