Progress Rate Quotes

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Cultural growth, like economic development rarely comes as a steady advance on all fronts at once.

Weird how fast technology changes.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

When emotions are deeply stirred, progress must be gradual.

The march of the human mind is slow.

In a recent interview, Jeb Bush revealed that his brother George gave him the nickname 'tortoise' because he's making slow, steady progress. Though I think the bigger story here is that compared to George, Jeb is the slow one.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

Look at how fast technology is developing.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.

Even if you can't do a full real push-up, I'd rather have you do them with a limited range of motion and work up to the perfect pushup then do them on your knees, where you probably won't progress at the rate that you could.

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.

Do you think that we are so talented that we can achieve in 200 days what you have achieved in 200 years.