Quotes About Development

Noggin is a protein that forms the skull.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

We are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but it is use and exercise only that makes us so, and we are indeed so no farther than industry and application has carried us.

It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.

God gave the World to Men in Common; But since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest Conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it;) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious.

I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

There is no such thing as talent, there is only cleaning the mirror.

Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.

I feel that my best work is ahead of me. I am embarrassed to look at my earlier writing now.

You cannot talk of preserving environment when the majority of the citizens are depending on charcol or wood for most of their energy source.

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

Failure's a natural part of life.

When personal computing finally blossomed in Silicon Valley in the mid-seventies, it did so largely without the benefit of any of the history and the research that had gone before it.

There was an abyss between the original work done by Engelbart's group in the sixties and the motley crew of hobbyists that would create the personal-computer industry beginning in 1975.

Dozens of the world's best computer scientists began their careers at SAIL. More than half a dozen companies including Foonly, Imagen, Xidex, Vicarm, Valid Logic, Sun Microsystems, Xerox PARC, and Cisco Systems can trace their technology either directly or indirectly to SAIL.

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever. Yep, just like people.

We must give our children fear. It is a rich and immensely valuable experience to know fear. Fear in context, fear that exists in complex relationships with other forces, fear that has limits and can be contained within safe places: this is the only way people at the beginning of their life journeys can develop an arsenal powerful enough to ensure that those journeys are healthy, satisfying and successful.