Quotes About Progress

Die Avantgarde auf allen Gebieten besteht aus den Einsamen, den Freundlosen, den Uneingeladenen. Jeglicher Fortschritt kommt von den Unbeliebten.

Never go longer than sixteen months without something new because after sixteen months people quit coming in that door and asking me if you have another book yet.

You're going up and up and up and not getting anywhere. It's the illusion of progress. What you want to think is your salvation. What people forget is a

Let me never be complete. May I never be content.

He was tired of learning history. He wanted to be it. Charlie wanted the history of the future to be him.

How what looks cool later on always looks crazy at first. "If numbers could explain the physical world, words would explain the invisible one.

DoÄŸumunuz, hayat?n?z boyunca düzeltmeye çal??aca??n?z bir hatad?r.

Vybudujte si z chyb minulosti lepÅ¡í budoucnost.

Gelecek ne zamandan beri vaat olmaktan ç?k?p tehdit unsuru haline geldi.

All under the pretense of military application." He pouts. "No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it's changed our culture.

Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.

What's come before will come back around again. Republic was the way of the world before, and it'll be the way again. And for a time everyone will cheer them on, and everything will be cozy-dosie, but there will come a time when things go sour and someone decides they got a better way of doing things.

I'm old enough to remember when the Republic shot itself right in the knee. It wasn't taken over by the Empire. It became the Empire slowly, surely, not overnight but over years and decades. Fruit always tastes nice when it's ripe. But it can't stay like that. Every nice piece of fruit will rot on the branch if it hangs there long enough. You remember that.

The future is suddenly unpinned—evolving, spinning, leaping about like a panicked tree-loormor.

This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right. Yes, it's a bit chaotic. Certainly we will get some things wrong.

We'll find a way forward. On this. I know we've hit a wall. It's not Trypanosoma, it's not flu, it's not anything. I trust this team. We'll find a breakthrough very soon, Doctor Ray." They had no idea how true that was.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it's really here.

The future is a door.

The first force is evolution. Humanity changing, growing, becoming better than it was. The second force is ruination. Humanity making its best effort to demonstrate its worst tendencies. A march toward self-destruction.

This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right.

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – 'The beginnings of all things are small

The beginnings of all things are small.

A problem is a way of creating a future. When plants grow and evolve they do so by way of problems, developing features to avoid predators, to maximise light or to retain moisture.