Quotes About Progress

The younger generation forms a country of its own.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Tecnologia é a resposta, mas qual é a questão?

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next." -A Fool's Progress

Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.

We are caught," continued the good doctor, "in the iron treads of a technological juggernaut. A mindless machine. With a breeder reactor for a heart.

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori...

Down at the beginning of the new road, at park headquarters, is the new entrance station and visitor center, where admission fees are collected and where the rangers are going quietly nuts answering the same three basic questions five hundred times a day: (1) Where's the john? (2) How long's it take to see this place? (3) Where's the Coke machine? Progress has come at last to the Arches, after a million years of neglect. Industrial Tourism has arrived. What

For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical coherence.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say ? it leaves me something to do.