Quotes About Progress

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

It's as if people used the invention

London created the Underground, and the Underground created London.

I've been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I've found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.

We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Application is complication',

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

The original Marx quote (rough) History repeats twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The addition by Leonard; Technology repeats twice, the first time as farce, and the second as tragedy

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

Despite the legacy of slavery, the near extermination of native Americans, and persistent racial, sexual, and social discrimination, the citizens of the United States could plausibly claim, in 1945, to live in the freest society on the face of the earth.

In May 2014, the Moon had faster broadband than most of rural Britain.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.

We are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but it is use and exercise only that makes us so, and we are indeed so no farther than industry and application has carried us.

It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.

And amongst those who are counted the civilized part of mankind

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.