Quotes About Progress

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

Action is the spark that ignites potential.

Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

There is no such thing as talent, there is only cleaning the mirror.

He advised, "Whenever you fall, pick up something.

Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.

Doors don't slam open.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Never mind the horse's blind, just load the wagon.

This century has been so rich in discovery and so packed with technical innovation that it is tempting to believe that there can never be another like it. That conceit betrays the poverty of our collective imagination.

I feel that my best work is ahead of me. I am embarrassed to look at my earlier writing now.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

In the martial art of Karate, for instance, the symbol of pride for a black belt is to wear it long enough such that the die fades to white as to symbolize returning to the beginner state.

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

Failure's a natural part of life.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

Gradually, he began to understand that the AI community was actually his philosophical enemy. After all, their vision was to replace humans with machines, while he wanted to extend and empower people.

When personal computing finally blossomed in Silicon Valley in the mid-seventies, it did so largely without the benefit of any of the history and the research that had gone before it.

There was an abyss between the original work done by Engelbart's group in the sixties and the motley crew of hobbyists that would create the personal-computer industry beginning in 1975.

A time of open scientific and technical experimentation, the period 1963 to 1969 was considered the "golden years" of AI.

That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever. Yep, just like people.

Schools in the 21st century are paying a heavy price for the errors of schools and teachers a generation ago. We are being punished for their sins.