Quotes About Progress

We need to make fast decisions here. We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Rush hour in LA started thirty years ago. It'll finish when the oil runs out.

She changed herself, by deciding it.

18. Nunca vuelvas atrás

Three miles at a slow jog, not much better than a fast walk

Which is why turning myself into a sex object now would be taking a big step backwards for me and all women in the department.

When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers.

These two discoveries, of relativity and of the quantum, each required us to break definitively with Newtonian physics. However, in spite of great progress over the century, they remain incomplete. Each has defects that point to a deeper theory. But the main reason each is incomplete is the existence of the other.

We're Western individualists who like technological and sociological change," I observed. "Traditions don't mean as much to us.

It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

I just liked it better when Mr. Andreeson was the enemy, I complained finally.

Train your body to act confidently so your mind follows suit. This is what the experts recommend. It's a lot easier to whip your body into shape than your brain. You know all the basic stuff: Stand tall, look people in the eye, smile and speak up. Start practising your CONFIDENCE BOOSTERs on the least intimidating people. Work your way up to the most difficult.

have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to

I will get it done this week barring any big obstacles" shows you have more assurance in your abilities.

I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

No se puede dar la felicidad a los individuos, y menos todavía a las sociedades! Cada sociedad ha de seguir su propio camino, subir de manera natural los peldaños del progreso y deberse a sí misma todo el bien y el mal que consigue.

It was against 'history,' against the belief that 'history' can decide any question, that progress can ever make superfluous the discussion of the primary questions [...] that [Nietzsche] reasserted hypothetically the doctrine of eternal return.

To affirm that contemporary tyranny cannot be adequately understood outside the classical frame of reference is to affirm that the classics were justified in their rejection of unlimited technical progress and universal enlightenment.

Nessun amante dell'umanità può rallegrarsi di un futuro postumano.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.