Quotes About Progress

Don't overthink it. Just write.

The city was full of everything; it was an inspiring testament to man's ambition and a stark reminder of his animal past.

All of the technology described in this book is either currently being tested on the launch pad or in advance stages of development. This is a story of the very near future.

We live in an incredible age. People like Laney get it, so do some of the general public. But I think they're still in that early phase like the internet in the 1990s. Yes, they know space is an industry now. Sure, they may know of someone who is peripherally involved. But they don't realize how big things are going to get.

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

The machines won, sister. We're just in denial.

Almost five hundred years ago, John Wilkins, a philosopher and bishop, pushed heavily for the written language to adopt an upside-down exclamation point at the end of a sentence to indicate irony. Think of how many online feuds that could have prevented.

Good science requires having your ideas challenged, and that's often difficult for the people whose paychecks you sign.

A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.

She believes that they are caught in an emotional timewarp without the necessary vision to appreciate the changes that have take place in society.

Things got better and better between them as the weeks passed by. There was never any 'Is it on or is it off?' It wasn't as complicated because they got on so well. That was the nice thing about it, a straightforward love story.

As Mother Teresa told her during her visit to Rome this year: "To heal other people you have to suffer yourself." Diana nodded vigorously in agreement. While she struggles to find an acceptable equilibrium in her life, she acknowledges the progress she has made. She says: "I've opened up. My life is changing. This is only the beginning.

To become somebody,first you need to be under somebodie's supervision.

Don't look back. Go to the car and don't look back." "Looking back is all I've got," he said.

You're doing great,' she said. 'You're in Birmingham .' Scullion wanted to say this was a contradiction in terms but he couldn't speak.

Don't stop to understand. You may never understand. Just keep going.

Only one thing in history is certain: that Mankind is unteachable.

Churchill sustituyó la religión ortodoxa por una fe laica en el progreso histórico, con un marcado énfasis en la misión civilizadora de Inglaterra y el imperio británico».

He trusted that they would be enabled to further the progress already made in rebuilding the domestic stability and economic strength of the United Kingdom and in weaving still more closely the threads which bound together the countries of the Commonwealth, or, as he still preferred to call it, the Empire.'183

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,' George Bernard Shaw wrote in 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'; 'the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Winning is not enough if one doesn't take advantage of success.

Sometimes the world's most brilliant ideas don't work. Doesn't make them any less insightful.

Are you trying new ideas, new techniques, and new technologies, and I mean personally trying them, not just reading about them? Or are you waiting for others to figure out how they can re-engineer your workplace—and you out of that workplace?

All production flows have a basic characteristic: the material becomes more valuable as it moves through the process.