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Quotes About Progress

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
~ Northcote Parkinson
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
~ Paul Getty
Had there been a computer a hundred years ago, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.
~ K. William Kapp
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
~ Stuart Udall
Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.
~ Lawrence Appley
Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
~ Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.)
~ Alphonse Karr
There is nothing permanent except change.
~ Heraclitus
Change must be measured from a known base line.
~ Evan Shute
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.
~ French proverb
I've learned only that you never say never.
~ Marina von Neumann Whitman
We change, whether we like it or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Everything flows, nothing stays still.
~ Heraclitus
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent.
~ Ralph L. Woods
Nothing is permanent but change.
~ Heraclitus
Everything changes but change itself.
~ John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life.
~ John F. Kennedy
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
When you're through changing, you're through.
~ Bruce Barton
Change is the only evidence of life.
~ Evelyn Waugh