Quotes About Progress

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Financial winners don't run sprints, they run marathons. They don't rush. They do it step by step over time.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.