Improve/improved

Famous quotes containing the words improve and/or improved:

“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”
—Ralph Erskine (b. 1914)

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)