Albert II of Belgium Quotes

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

America…could within twenty years bring us to a degree of development which Turks, left to themselves, would not be able to achieve in a century. It would make Turkey prosperous, rich and happy and turn Turks into a strong and civilized nation.

The world is evolving.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

The march of progress must continue.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

New roads; new ruts.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Reform is one of the priorities of the Arab world. All countries and societies want to move ahead and have their own views of how to move ahead. Reform is an item for all of us to support but we have to be cautious because of the fragility of the security situation and uncertainty on the international scene.