Quotes About Progress

Industrial capitalism not only created work, it also created 'leisure' in the modern sense of the term.

You can't step into the same River even once, And why would you want to? You can't

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

We often forget that the journey is just as important as the end destination, and evolution occurs all along the way.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.

Strive to be better today than you were yesterday.

The calendar says we are half way from 2000 to 2015.But the reality is that we are we are a million miles away from success.

Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

The truth that no abrupt change has ever taken place in all the customs of a people, and that it cannot, in the nature of things, take place, is perhaps the most fundamental lesson that history teaches.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Anytime you're gonna grow, you're gonna lose something. You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that you're comfortable with, you're losing familiarity.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

Mistakes are the portals for discovery.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Still drink most o' their beer outta bottles, that's how underdeveloped they are.

The things we never challenge are the things that never change

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.