Quotes About Progress

Can we survive technology?

Natura non facis Saltus.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stiff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they have always been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

This is Chronos devouring his sons. The last maker of history swallows all previous history down. - The Adventures of the Day-Self in the Age of the Machines

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

Burning daylight

Yup. The end of a way of life. Too bad. It's a good way. Wagons forward! Yo!

And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts'... I usually have trouble with that phrase.

We're burnin' daylight.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though't goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Knowledge only progresses by making mistakes as fast as possible.

Coaching focuses on future possibilities, not past mistakes

Los líderes deben pensar en sus empleados en términos de su potencial, no de su rendimiento pasado.