Quotes About Progress

And I am flawed but I am cleaning up so well.

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

There was a time when the human race did not have technology. This time was called "the 1950s." I was a child then, and it was horrible. There were only three TV channels, and at any given moment at least two of them were showing men playing the accordion in black and white.

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

The world had changed since place names were invented.

I don't like it, but as they say you can't make chickens without breaking eggs." The

When God calls, be patient. Your responsibility is to take your next step.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right?

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

through a scenario where he fails, and then you put him through it again and he succeeds. First you revealed a flaw in his armor and then you taught him how to shore up that weakness. In so doing, you brought him out the other end of the exercise as a superior warrior.

Thus, some individuals may skip certain stages, or blend them, or pass through them so fleetingly that they do not even acknowledge their presence.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead, anthropologist

In only 8 to 12 weeks, a newly hatched duckling is transformed into a young adult.

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

the future is no place to place your better days

Always walk where you like your steps.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.