Quotes About Progress

aunque obviamente los humanos hemos sobrevivido a cualquier virus o meteorito que la naturaleza nos ha lanzado hasta ahora, la tecnología es algo que nosotros nos lanzamos a nosotros mismos por nuestra cuenta y riesgo.

You grow based on exploiting strengths, not by acclimating to weaknesses.

The key to finding a terrific mentor is not to pursue someone who is at the very top of the profession, but to find someone who two years ago was where you are now. He or she will be most familiar with your current situation, and have relevant, timely experiences and perspective to share.

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The only measure that matters is improved results—an improved client condition, in this case represented by objectives met and validated by key metrics.

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

Soon I'll grow up, and I won't even flinch at your name.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

the present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if possible, is corrected and transcended

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.

Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future, and the result is a permanent state of impermanence.

In a fully discovered world exploration does not stop; it just has to be reinvented.

I thought we were better then this." "We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes.

Why do today what you can still do in a quarter of a million years?

It's not how far you've come that matters. It's where you've come from.

An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it "reading".

We crawl out of rocks, set our calendars, make a civilisation, scrabble around for quoins, build our proud little empires, and then one day someone puts too many quoins in the same place and it all comes crashing down.

We're all Poseidon's children, Geoffrey: whether we like it or not." "Poseidon's children," he repeated. "Is that supposed to mean something?" "We came through. That's all. We weathered the absolute worst that history could throw at us, and we thrived. Now it's time to start doing something useful with our lives.

Lack of ambition is for baseline humans.]

Let me explain something about survival. You do not worry about the third or fourth stepping stone until you have successfully traversed the first and second. Anything beyond them is a diversion of energies away from the immediate moment.

Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.

We're still fumbling in the dark, trying to find out how to live on a galactic scale.