Quotes About Progress

Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.

Victor Hugo once said that nothing in this world was so powerful as an idea whose time has come. In our time, the idea is technology, especially information processing technology. The programmer partakes of this technology power

Press forward with all diligence so that you may claim the promises of the Lord.

the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.

El sentido común nos dice por qué: si no está obteniendo lo que desea, es claro que cualquier cosa que haya realizado hasta este punto no está funcionando.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.

If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones to pay to right it?

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!

The only menace is inertia.

Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

Systems die; instincts remain.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.