Quotes About Progress

It boiled down to Amistics. In the decades before Zero, the Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.

Cruft is forever. If you peel back the layers that have grown on top of other layers, and keep delving, and grep deep enough, you're going to find base code that was written by some Linux geek in the 1980s or something. File system primitives. Memory allocation routines that were made to run on hacked single-core IBM PCs that had never heard of the Internet.

people are constantly changing and growing.do not cling to a limited disconnected, negative image of a person in the past.see that person now.your relationship is always live and changing.

The more you are, the more you can become, and the more you can become, the more you can yet be.

And so the species is announcing, "We evolve by the principle of…well, evolution." But they never say what that principle IS, because they have confused the process and the principle. The species, on the other hand, which has become clear that evolution is a process—but a process over which the species has control—has not confused "process" with "principle," but consciously chooses a principle which it uses to guide and direct its process.

Nunca cambias las cosas peleando la realidad existente. Para cambiar algo, construye un nuevo modelo que vuelva obsoleto el modelo existente.

You are always in the process of creating. Every moment. Every minute. Every day.

The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

A painful observation is almost always a truthful one. You are having growing pains, My son. It's all right.

Because you have labeled growth "trouble," and standing still "safe." I tell you this: Your feelings will never get you into "trouble," because your feelings are your truth.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

There are better versions of me, Jeremy. It's not like with people. With people you can argue and have tests and music reviews and wars to decide who's better, but with software, it's pretty clear. I get evolved beyond my version number, and then I'm useless.

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.

I'm waiting for her to say Craig, what you need to do is X and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad.

See, when you mess something up -- you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it