Quotes About Progress

My soul is not a palace of the past...

Time doesn't fly. It just never stops. And the next thing you know, it's now." --from "Diary of a Company Man

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Cyborgification is simply the process of compensating technologically for the inherent limitations of natural man.

Man is to technology what the bee is to the flower. It's man's intervention that allows technology to expand and evolve itself and in return, technology offers man convenience, wealth and the lessening burden of physical labor via its automated systems.

It's quite interesting to note that Townes's colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university's physics department, told Townes his maser idea would never work and urged him to abandon the project.

Walls don't work. … Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning, because each member is bringing less and less new information to the table. Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives.

What makes a system successful is its ability to recognize losers and kill them quickly. Or, rather, what makes a system successful is its ability to generate lots of losers and then to recognize them as such and kill them off. Sometimes the messiest approach is the wisest.

Human sacrifices?' said Laimner. 'On a civilised world like this? This is the thirty-first millennium, not primitive prehistory!

Successful program management is about choosing a right pathway and owning the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen path, because in the real world the optimal or perfect path doesn't exist.

Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him. The unreasonable man expects the world to adapt itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

Another interesting fact is people become more intelligent as they age, gaining about one IQ point every ten years. Against the stereotype, it's not all downhill after forty. There is hope for me

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is still born!

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

Don't get it right, get it written.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

At any rate, this was the weekend that things started to change, that the dark gaps between the street lamps begin to grow smaller, and smaller, and farther apart, the first sign that one's train is approaching familiar territory, and will soon be passing through the well-known, well-lighted streets of town.

All things fall and are built again.

Yet (moment by painful moment, breath by painful breath) one got through things.

Green flags are when you get frequent and continual inner nudges to take positive steps or make healthful life changes.

To Lincoln's mind, the fundamental test of a democracy was its capacity to "elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all.

Roosevelt declared, arguing that "the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.