#advance

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#almost #automatically #human #increase #misery

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#average #breed #just #makes #minor

The mind cannot foresee its own advance. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#cannot #foresee #mind #own

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

#advance #future #instead #know #knowledge

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#clock #forward #hands #hour #putting

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#advance #after #below #critical #critical mass

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement. ↗

— David Axelrod

#barack #barack obama #communications #country #disseminate

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#answer #away #company #goes #know

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#because #going #i #know #lose