Quotes About Progress

Although not exceptional in ways we once believed, we remain exceptionally good at building tools and machines. And that includes machines that do what we do. Machines that dig, sow, and reap. Machines that kill and machines that prolong life. Machines that calculate, and, before long, machines who think.

Hace algún tiempo que el mundo gira en torno al dinero, ya no en torno a la historia.

A girl sitting with us in the boat compared traveling over the water to the imperceptible gliding and progress of growth, that of fruit for example, which perhaps would have little desire to ripen if it knew to what end.

Ser joven es equivocarse; la juventud tiene que hablar y actuar irreflexivamente para que haya algún progreso

cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada más perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.

Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Civilization rests on two things, said Hitzig; the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?

However much science and educational theory and advanced thinking you pump into a college or a university, it always retains a strong hint of its medieval origins.

We come to God in little steps, not in a leap.

Sure can. Just ask the computer. That thing will do just about everything but polish your shoes." By eight-fifteen

how we proceed with repair depends on how we remember

Without new visions, we don't know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us

No, but I am working up to telling you that there is no possibility of there being done what ought to be done-

breaking tradition always comes with a noise like mountains falling.

I don't know where to begin." "Begin in the middle and work outwards," said Hope. "Don't be stuffy.

The world turned, and new stories rose up, and the legends of the old days faltered a little, or turned themselves in their course to keep up with the lives of their people, and the lives of great-grandchildren of those they had first known.

In all the odium the British generals have attracted, it should be noticed that it was the British, not the French or the Germans, who created the tank and brought it into action and in so doing changed the face of war.

the credit for developing the basic idea into what became the first tank must go to Winston Churchill

while the means to cause casualties had vastly increased, the means to reduce them had yet to be thought of. This applied in particular to the attack, because the armies, all the armies, were fighting a twentieth-century war with nineteenth-century tactics - even though the new technology had made those tactics either obsolescent or positively dangerous.

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

What gets measured gets improved.