Quotes About Progress

You don't know the impact of Windows XP. You don't know what the economic impact is going to be.

I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.

NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

Wine gets better with time. So does art.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.

I qualify myself like a bottle of wine - the more I get older, the more it tastes sweet!

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.