Quotes About Progress

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

But seriously Holden, what is the island called now?" "Sentosa," Holden said romantically and with a flourish of his unoccupied left hand. "Sentosa. Sounds romantic all right. So this is the progress you're talking about?

thumbs. With every minute

Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark.

My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order of painting and the order of words, since words are what we paint with. He believed in redemption. Deep down he may even have believed in progress. Coincidence, on the other hand, is total freedom, our natural destiny. Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are.

What begins as comedy ends as a triumphal march, wouldn't you say?

You have to change. You have to turn yourself around and change. You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Above all, we have to remember, Marx is greedy. He wants more of everything. He is suspicious of quality unless it is simply the mark of greater quantity: even if quality could exist alone, it would always be less admirable than a quantity in continual prospect of increase.

The creation of conditions by which an entire people who have lived in exploitation and illiteracy gains access to the highest levels of knowledge and creativity is one of the most beautiful achievements of a revolution.

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

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

Midlife is not the end of anything, but in fact the beginning of a whole new phase you can look forward to.

studies show that when a woman leaves one partner for another, she invariably moves up the scale to a better compromise

Let me remind you of something Einstein once said: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"

As time passes, what was once an unpredictable step sideways becomes a definitive step forward for art.

Even were we to agree, we could notice that things do not develop by continuous extrusion through time like toothpaste squeezed from a tube.

Life is not a transcript. This isn't a test you can ace or fail. You can get Cs and Ds and still be okay.

Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and reface our mistakes and defeats until we can learn from them. When we learn from the past, the wheel continues to move forward, towards growth and evolution. When we don't, the wheel spins backward, and we are given another chance. If once more we squander the opportunity, the wheel continues its rotation towards devolution, or destruction.

It starts with doors, which, when you think about it, all of life does.