Quotes About Progress

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

la modernidad existe solo a corto plazo. La seriedad es a largo plazo.

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing

Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

Shalom is not a utopian destination; it is a constant journey.

It was a truism to people active in the gay movement that the greatest impediments to homosexuals' progress often were not heterosexual bigots but closeted homosexuals.

the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the illusion of change. We find ourselves alone, unchanged, frozen in the empty space behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperbacks.

How can you tell it's the end of an era? When a suddenly intolerable present crystallizes in a short period of time what was so uneasily put up with in the past. And everyone is suddenly quite easily convinced that he or she is either going to be reborn in the birth of a new world, or die in the archaic netherworld of a society less and less adapted to the living.

It's worth asking ourselves what skills are more commonly needed today. Games should be evolving towards teaching us those skills.

If your goal is to keep things fun (read as "keep the player learning"), boredom is always the signal to let you know you have failed.

Merely understanding a space and how the rules make it work isn't enough, though. We also need to understand how it will react to change to exercise power over it. This is why games progress over time. There are almost no games that take just one turn.*

All of these things make us feel good when we're successful at them, but lumping them all together as "fun" just renders the word meaningless.

We must learn from the past, not relive it time and again.

One scratch on the wall is just a scratch. Many scratches, however, may change the shape of the wall. Often many incremental steps rather than a single blow, bring about historical changes.

Curiosity is an engine of success.

communal cooperation is the key to our survival in this technotyrannical revolution-ras cardo

Embrace yourself, in these times, and acknowledge yourself for the extraordinary progress you are making, as a soul, in every waking moment.

My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.

Never give 100% when start of something, it will take time, patience, and effort to build an empire.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

My thinking is my possession; always ready to exchange for a better version of that.

The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux, Fly, man, the flux of time. If everything goes tits up, there's always the farm and the cows...

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.