Quotes About Progress

If it's hard to like what one isn't good at, will I like it more when I am better at it?" - Sonea

I'm beginning to sound like a novice repeating formulas," he muttered to Dannyl irritably. "Perhaps you should write a report on your progress every evening and nail it to your door.

Restricting knowledge slows the pace of development.

Nyasha . . . became quite annoyed and delivered a lecture on the dangers of assuming that Christian ways were progressive ways. 'It's bad enough, she said severely, 'when a country gets colonised, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end.

If you set a goal, then forget about it and instead focus on creating an enjoyable process that you love and find personally rewarding, what happens is that you end up doing better at achieving the goal you set in the beginning.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

Machines have no fear of the unfamiliar.

It's becoming increasingly clear that mechanized intelligence can solve a rapidly expanding repertoire of problems.

apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS, the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass...Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three generations ago.

Therefore, I wish to say it again: The biggest story of the last fifteen years, both nationally and globally, is the growing likelihood that a cyclical model of history will be a better predictor than a model of ongoing progress.

Switch the direction your past is sending you. Soon enough, it becomes a different past.

the past is redefined by the arrow of its future.

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases.

The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.

Evet beyefendi, ben maymundan geliyorum. Ama siz ona doÄŸru ilerliyorsunuz!

Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! -Somos enanos -admitió Guillermo-, pero enanos subidos a los hombros de aquellos gigantes, y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon

A civilização não chegará à perfeição enquanto a última pedra da última igreja não tiver caído sobre o último padre, e a Terra tiver sido libertada daquela escória.

el individuo pasa de un consumo a otro en una especie de bulimia sin objetivo (el nuevo teléfono móvil nos ofrece poquísimas prestaciones nuevas respecto al viejo, pero el viejo tiene que ir al desguace para participar en esta orgía del deseo).