Quotes About Progress

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.

controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day—would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

I don't know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I've traveled to get here is like those interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you're not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you're going and realize that you've been traveling for a long time.

don't be the smartest person in the room, its corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room.* This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Lore: Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!

The difference is a matter of shifts in society . . . and in me. These shifts aren't meant to be an excuse of any kind. I'm happy for the shifts, as it has brought (at least some of) the world to a more enlightened place. A place just a touch freer of bigotry and hatred, including within myself.

Hey, as long as you're not moving the story forward at all, why not have a pod race?

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.

The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Wenn Seufzer die Welt verbessern könnten, sie wäre längst keiner Verbesserung mehr fähig.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.

Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.