Quotes About Progress

Every Winter brings it's own Spring.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

There is one argument against evolution that deserves consideration. If man is evolving and progressing, why is man's involvement in mass killings of one another getting worse and the struggle for peace more difficult? Government wars and exterminations in the twentieth century reached 262 million people killed by their own governments and 44 million people killed in wars. I fear that doesn't say much for the evolutionary process.

We could have done with a lot less of the militarism of the 20th century. We'll have a lot less militarism as the 21st century progresses because there will be no money to pay for it.

Moderates are somehow convinced that they are the saviors of the country, rescuing us all from the effects of philosophical differences. In fact, philosophical differences are healthy because they lead to the clarification of principles. Genuine progress is going to require more confrontation, partisanship, and serious and honest discussion of the truth about government, the economy, and every sector of American life.

But as long as American civilisation lasts New York will last."99

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

What can we do?" It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school." ? Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out

It a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.

Your goal should be to keep the temperature within what we call the productive zone of disequilibrium (PZD): enough heat generated by your intervention to gain attention, engagement, and forward motion, but not so much that the organization (or your part of it) explodes.

The dogmas of the quiet past,76 are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new,77 so we must think anew, and act anew.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

the burgeoning of research that had occurred since, internationally, and taking ever more sophisticated forms, had passed them by completely.

THIS BOOK HAS been over a quarter of a century in the making,

Technology—nobody knows more about technology than me.

I don't think it's going to come to that, especially with the fact that we're going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.