Quotes About Progress

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!

Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.

From the electrical-engineering editor Thomas Commerford Martin came eloquent support: "Mr. Tesla has been held a visionary, deceived by the flash of casual shooting stars; but the growing conviction of his professional brethren is that because he saw farther, he saw first the low lights flickering on tangible new continents of science. . . .

I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction

Maybe the human species has evolved too far, maybe we all move around too much, too pointlessly, and consciousness will implode upon itself.

We rarely choose what is subtracted from our lives, but we can choose how we respond. How we reorganize our lives in order to move forward.

La posibilidad de librar una guerra y la evolución de la sociedad humana forman parte del mismo relato.

A medida que ha mejorado nuestra capacidad para matar, también nos hemos vuelto menos tolerantes con la violencia.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

There was no going back and she was going forward.

She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years. Tonight was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and youth was gone.

first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

Tomorrow is another day.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.