Quotes About Progress

Resistance to digital industrialism may look like communism, but it's better understood as a simple reinstatement of the commons. Most

But now, digital technology was to return the Nasdaq to its former glory and beyond.

future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether.

It's time to shift our thinking from the old model of teaching to a new model of learning.

change forces us to learn differently.

So what frameworks do we need to make sense of learning in our world of constant change?

What happens to learning when we move from the stable infrastructure of the twentieth century to the fluid infrastructure of the twenty-first century, where technology is constantly creating and responding to change?

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

The first 100 samples reduce uncertainty much more than the second 100. In fact, even the first 10 samples tell you a lot more than the next 10. The initial state of uncertainty tells you a lot about how to measure it.

measure what matters, make better decisions.

If you don't know what to measure, measure anyway. You'll learn what to measure.

Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.

Learn what good work is, imitate it studiously, and do that over time.

The world is a very different place from what it was two thousand years ago, much of it for the better, but we are still taking the lives of inconvenient infants. The work that Jesus came to do, that of throwing down all the idols, is not yet complete.

So when Adam found the beehive-knocking-down stick, he was wealthier than he was before. When a man purchases an app for ninety-nine cents, he is wealthier than he was before. Tools are technology, and technology is a form of wealth.

Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.

Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

You may not succeed in one day, but one day you will succeed!

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

Be educated, be organized and be agitated.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.