Quotes About Progress

They were blind to a cold fact of evolution…that progress stems from the clashing merger of antagonistic extremes, out of the marriage of pinnacle freaks.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Century also had shelves of obsolete printed books.

You are the first to arrive alive in fifty years. You are a puissant man. Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of the Holy Darwin. Most scientific.

You can't go back and you can't catch up. Happy endings are always bittersweet.

Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

He that builds a city, and does not intend it should increase, commits as great an absurdity, as if he should desire his child might ever continue under the same weakness in which he is born. If it do not grow, it must pine and perish; for in this world nothing is permanent; that which does not grow better will grow worse.

A well-governed state is as fruitful to all good purposes, as the seven-headed serpent is said to have been in evil; when one head is cut off, many rise up in the place of it. Good order being once established, makes good men...

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

We never know the end of the story until we get there.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

It was always best to step into the future while it was still waiting for you.

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?

All things change, for that is the way of the world we walk through.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

But desire can drive you for miles. It can lead you in ways you never would have imagined. A map can be written in ashes, earth, water, air. Take a step and keep walking. Don't be afraid to look back. In the end, every path you choose takes you closer to what you've been searching for all along.

What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits.

let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

It was best to step into the future while it was still waiting for you.