Quotes About Progress

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

Good people climb quickly - just like in a company.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!

Our first two records are a lot quieter and more studio-based. We kind of had this feeling like we wanted to make a more quote-unquote 'rock' record. Then Patrick joined and really brought a new Herculean power to the band.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?

It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.

Well, I haven't been a delivery boy for quite a long time.

There have been times when I didn't quite make my deadline.

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.