Quotes About Progress

Living Step by Step Because nomadic life in ancient times was defined by a continual walking from place to place, the Bible emphasizes the importance of a person's steps and feet. As one Old Testament scholar explained, "Although the Hebrew is keenly aware of the role the hand plays in human actions, [it] still places more emphasis on the

Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Beginning is half done.

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

History shows that where gamers take people, everything else follows. There

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder MIT Media Labs

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt stated in their exquisite photo book, The Human Face of Big Data, "Now, in the first day of a baby's life today, the world creates 70 times the data contained in the entire Library of Congress.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

So it's okay. Go out there bravely, and know the first good thing you do will be on the back of many bad things. So let the bad things count, and enjoy writing them too.

The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work.

An error which is not perpetuated cannot be viewed as any error at all.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Nothing stays the same

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

I'd rather welcome change than cling to the past.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children. There is no such thing as being neutral: we must either help or hinder.