Quotes About Progress

so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, your sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

I mean, she said that one can't help growing older. One can't perhaps, said Humpty Dumpty but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven

Oh! Siempre llegarás a alguna parte, si caminas lo suficiente

Si cada uno se ocupase de lo suyo el mundo iría mucho más deprisa de lo que va.

Po?ni od po?etka' , re?e Kralj važno, i idi sve dok ne stigneš do kraja; onda stani.

but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." - Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

Si todo el mundo se ocupara de sus propios asuntos , el mundo giraría mucho más rápido

No tiene utilidad volver ayer , porque entonces era una persona distinta

Quero dizer que uma pessoa não pode evitar ficar mais velha' 'Uma não pode, talvez', disse Humpty Dumpty, 'mas duas podem. Com a devida assistência, talvez, você teria podido parar em sete'.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! - alice and wonderland

It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf

Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created. We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.

That technics has often lagged behind culture, that the efficiency of the assembly line, for example, might be, humanly speaking, a mark of social backwardness, seems never to have occurred to the exponents of unqualified technological progress.

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th Century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.

The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.