Quotes About Progress

an electronic technology, cultural changes occur more rapidly than value systems can accommodate them, and in the resulting confusion technology itself becomes a surrogate religion. Christ, the core symbol of Western

People used to die from germs. Now they died from bad habits.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure

and how dangerous and dumb it can be to embalm yourself in the attractive amber of the past.

Image of a Roman wax tablet, which looks very like an iPad.

civilization—a word that simply means living in cities... Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. —Karl Popper, philosopher of science (1902-94)

Post Horses and Conveyances of every description may be ordered by the electric telegraph to be in readiness on the arrival of a train, at either Paddington or Slough Station.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. —Marcus Tullius Cicero

At the time there were no printing presses and no paper.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

Every exit is an Entry somewhere else.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

No more you can, time must needs run backward, and since it will not, we must stir our way onward mixing as we go, disorder out of disorder into disorder until pink is complete, unchanging and unchangeable, and we are done with it for ever. This is known as free will or self-determination.

To be morally educated is to realize that such would be a terrible price. Mechanical advance is the slack taken up of Our failing humanity. Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.

The future is disorder.

ALEXANDER (cont.):     How the world must have been changing while I was holding it still.

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. — Grace Hopper

the change was adjustment without improvement.

Correct what you can; learn from what you can't.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.

Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.