Quotes About Progress

In their view, hacking would be better served by using the best system possible.

A computer gives the average person, a high school freshman, the power to do things in a week that all the mathematicians who ever lived until thirty years ago couldn't do.

Systems are organic, living creations: if people stop working on them and improving them, they die.

the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts.

Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did. - Terry Winograd

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

Volume 2 will begin with Cervantes and end with the most interesting novel of 2012.

Pop music has progressed.

As we care about more of humanity, we're apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.

a?a cum grânele noi ies din p?mânturile vechi, la fel ?i "toat? aceast? nou? ?tiin??" pe care oamenii o înva?? apare tot din b?trânele hâr?oage. Geoffrey Chaucer,1380, "Parlament al p?s?rilor

Doar pentru c? nu ?tim cum func?ioneaz? un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? nu func?ioneaz?.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare, is on the move. ('Emerging Africa', 2010)

Beginnings are usually scary, endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.

There was permanence in change. It was the only way life could flourish.

new city. With

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Perhaps science was a retarded child because its parent was philosophy rather than engineering, because, we might say, it put Aristotle above Archimedes.

Science is taking over magic's place in the world, and magic is fighting back.

few less smart-aleck attorneys and a few more Henry Fords, and the world would have less troubles and more to eat." Ford, added another small-town paper, "comes nearer being typical of the average, energetic, courageous, honest, uncultured American than any other one man in this country….

universal automobile. With his new car for the people, Ford certainly changed how his fellow citizens lived. But, even more significantly, he changed how they thought about what was important.

I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.

This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.