Quotes About Progress

Y2K was the maturation of a criticism whose echo would become normative and unyielding: We've lost control of what we have built, and we need to go back. But the road at our heels was already gone. Forward was the only way out.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

the slow cancellation of the future and the fast homogenization of the past]

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

It's impossible to understand the world of today until today has become tomorrow.

Every visual reflects the same statement: The hedonistic, euphoric, high-gloss 1980s are over. It took five minutes to killdoze an entire decade.

The future is always impossible.

It sometimes seems like 1995 was the year the future began. This is particularly true if the last book you happened to read was W. Joseph Campbell's 1995: The Year the Future Began.

flaws that didn't seem unacceptable until they were already eradicated.

A journey to nowhere also begins with a single step

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

Self improvement is masturbation...

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.