Quotes About Progress

Life is like checkers. When you reach the top, you can move wherever you want.

Experience is another word for mistakes.

Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities of being a mature human are immutable. People can change, and those changes--not just the accumulation of information--represent true learning.

In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma" that must be memorized and regurgitated. Yet in the "real science you're not too worried about the right answer... Real science recognizes that you have an advantage over practically any other human enterprise because what you are after- call it truth or understanding- waits patiently for you while you screw up.

You have to be confused," Dudley Herschbach, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist from Harvard, confessed, "before you can reach a new level of understanding anything." In many disciplines, especially

but the fact we knew less seemed to suit us better. Now we know everything and talk to nobody.

I know that pucks are now shot faster by more fast shooters. I know that players train harder and longer, and receive better coaching. I know that in any way an athlete can be measured--in strength, in speed, in height or distance jumped--he is immensely superior to the one who performed twenty years ago. But measured against a memory, he has no chance. I know what I feel.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

For we have seen the future – we have by now centuries of experience of the future – and we know it doesn't work.

It's elementary chaos theory, or to give it its popular designation—Murphy's Law. Random changes happen all the time. Mistakes accumulate. Correcting them brings further changes. As someone smarter than me once said, evolution is smarter than you.

Orgel's rule—"Evolution is smarter than you

Shooting arrows at the iron horses of Manifest Destiny.

the only way to get there was to burn through capitalism, to get through that unavoidable stage as fast as possible.

None of its components were conscious beings. As post-conscious AIs, they were well beyond that. They

Kindle, ah,' said Baxter, 'takes me back.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

Take the first step... and the next will be revealed.

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Creative teams are dynamic.