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“In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.”

Country Jobs Moving Choices Progress Creation Adversity Moving Forward Job Creation Times Of Adversity Maryland Forward Progress

Author:Martin O'Malley

“All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.”

World Choices Individual Difficult Progress Traditional

Author:Gore Verbinski

“In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.”

May Long Art Ends Choices Enjoy Can Do Clear Progress Flow Art And Science Eclectic Delta Clear Direction

Author:Robert Bateman

“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.”

“So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.”

“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.”

“Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.”

Giving Children Jobs Choices Progress Creation Our Children Job Creation

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.”

Ifs Thinking Should Important Choices Progress Creating Picks Trade Prosperity Favors Technological Versus Variables Free Trade Technological Progress

Author:Peter Thiel

“Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.”

Choices Perfect Progress Standards Perfection Activist Historian Gauges

Author:Jonathan Chait

“The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.”

Source: Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth

“Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.”

May Two Choices Waiting Progress Minutes Tasks Customers Software Chef Programmers Urgency Completion Patron Two Choices

Author:Fred Brooks

“As your career progresses, you hope that you get some more opportunity, or some more choice.”

Choices Opportunity Careers Progress

Author:Paul Dano