Quotes About Development

Potential has a shelf life.

It's better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

What people want is perfection, said the man. In themselves. But they need the steps to it to be pointed out, said the woman. In a simple order, said the man. With encouragement, said the woman. And a positive attitude.

A road is a process, not a location.

How can I teach her some way of being human that won't destroy her?

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion;

Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with.

I don't think they'll ever replace the living and breathing," says Gary. "They said that about e-books," says Kevin. "You can't stop progress.

Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

She's certainly old enough," said Aunt Vidala. "We have taught her all we can. If they stay in school too long, they become disruptive.

Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!

I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction

As to why I have made no further advances,' he pursued blandly, as though she had not signified that the conversation was at an end, 'I am waiting for you to grow up a little more. You see, it wouldn't be much fun for me to kiss you now and I'm quite selfish about my pleasures. I never fancied kissing children.

She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years. Tonight was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and youth was gone.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

Science clears the fields on which technology can build.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

Science and technology can solve all the world's problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.