Quotes About Progress

Wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.

in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking in the same place twice.

To understand progress: all places we call ugly are both man-made and modern, never natural or historical.

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders

But you are already there; why take more risks?

Trial and error is freedom.

in spite of our progress and the growth in knowledge, or perhaps because of such progress and growth, the future will be increasingly less predictable

I have gotten closer to my dream life thanks

You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.

Change for the sake of change, as we see in architecture, food, and lifestyle, is frequently the opposite of progress.

I have gotten closer to my dream life thanks to the

the drastic changes brought about by unpredictable discoveries

too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.

The dream of having computers behave like humans is coming true, with the transformation, in a single generation, of humans into computers.

In the days of Suetonius, 60% of prominent educators (grammarians) we slaves. Today the ratio is 97.1%, and growing.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.

The sea gets deeper as you go further into it

developers are getting the benefits others pay for.

The future ain't what it used to be," Berra

Further, the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. if every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution - so every attempt becomes more valuable, more like an expense than an error. And of course you make discoveries along the way.

Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

Even now, we are using technology to reverse technology.

wealth itself does not really make one happy (above, of course, some subsistence level); but positive changes in wealth may

Next let me show how the future is mostly in the past.