Quotes About Progress

If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.

I love the sense of vast transformation that hangs on us at this new millennium, the feeling that we are at the brink of knowing more than people have ever known before.

I wish I could tell you which issues will move forward surprisingly fast and which will slip unaccountably backward. There will be surprises in store on both fronts. All I know for sure is that those twenty-six shapes are what we have to defend our liberty and sustain our hope.

Further, the devices being implanted now are different from the ones used even a decade ago. This means that all decisions about how early to implant children are based on speculation rather than experience.

Returning from distress by gradual degrees gives sense to affliction itself.

The amount of improvement that has occurred in computer technology in the past half century is truly staggering and unprecedented in other industries. ... If cars had improved at this rate in the same time period, a Rolls Royce would now cost 10 dollars and get a billion miles per gallon. (Unfortunately, it would probably also have a 200-page manual telling how to open the door.)

Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.

If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

Human creativity, then, images God's creativity when it emerges from a lively, loving community of persons and, perhaps more important, when it participates in unlocking the full potential of what has gone before and creating possibilities for what will come later.

For almost all of human history, tools were quite limited. They weren't everywhere; they were in specific places. Tools were in the field (agricultural tools) or in the kitchen (cooking tools) or in the toolshed (work tools). And while tools helped us do our work, they didn't work on their own. The dream of a tool that would work by itself was strictly the stuff of magic or fantasy—the sorcerer's apprentice's dream of a broom that would clean up by itself.

Creativity is the only viable source of change.

If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count!

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

Security breeds stagnation.

History books are being re-written all the time

People do tend to avoid new realities; they'd rather just add details to the old ones. It's as simple as that.

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don't believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

Years had passed, and all of life was different now.

Everything that happened in the past It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.