Quotes About Progress

Paradoxically, therefore, as economics becomes more truly scientific, it will become less of a science. Acknowledging these limitations will free it to serve us once more.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

The GDP rises whenever money changes hands....The whole thing is reminiscent of Edward Abbey's reflection that "growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell.

Getting Back To Even – Your Personal Economic Recovery Plan

These three conditions of human society are expressed by the rough, the split and the polished stone.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

Architecture is the work of nations.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.

Once a response becomes a habit, you stop learning. Theoretically, you could act differently, but in practice you do not. Habits are extremely useful, they streamline the parts of our lives we do not want to think about...But there is an art to deciding what parts of your life you want to turn over to habit, and what parts of your life you want to continue to learn from and have choice about. This is a key question of balance.

Free your expectation of the future from the grip of past failure.

That's how games work—we fail our way toward understanding through play.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

So I am driven to find a different way to read the Bible that allows me simultaneously to be both a person of faith and a person thankful for and dedicated to the century in which I am privileged to live.

Erich Fromm, a German-American psychologist and author, reminds us that "people never think their way into new ways of acting, they always act their way into new ways of thinking.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

The road is not certain, and the end of the journey cannot be seen.

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.