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7. “We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns, and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today – and will make possible tomorrow.”
Alvin Toffler
Urbanization, Productivity, Labor, Technology, Development
13. “If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.” Herbert Spencer Evolution, Life, Science, Time, Development
23. “Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They’re to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.” Earl Nightingale Mistakes, Growth, Encouragement, Learning, Development
25. “There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.” Henry Ward Beecher Freedom, Growth, Oppression, Development, Struggle
30. “Most long-range forecasts of what is technically feasible in future time periods dramatically underestimate the power of future developments because they are based on what I call the “intuitive linear” view of history rather than the “historical exponential” view.” Ray Kurzweil Forecasts, Technology, Development, History, Innovation
Development Quotes by Famous Authors
7. “We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns, and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today – and will make possible tomorrow.”
Alvin Toffler Urbanization, Productivity, Labor, Technology, Development
13. “If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.”
Herbert Spencer Evolution, Life, Science, Time, Development
23. “Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They’re to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.”
Earl Nightingale Mistakes, Growth, Encouragement, Learning, Development
25. “There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.”
Henry Ward Beecher Freedom, Growth, Oppression, Development, Struggle
30. “Most long-range forecasts of what is technically feasible in future time periods dramatically underestimate the power of future developments because they are based on what I call the “intuitive linear” view of history rather than the “historical exponential” view.”
Ray Kurzweil Forecasts, Technology, Development, History, Innovation
