Quotes About Progress

We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

I live on a park bench, You, Park Avenue. Hell of a distance Between us two. I beg a dime for dinner-- You got a butler and maid. But I'm wakin' up! Say, ain't you afraid That I might, just maybe, In a year or two, Move on over To Park Avenue?

Hey you rising workers everywhere greetings

And so it was And is with you: The seed, the flower, The root, the tree, The dream, the you.

I have, personally, the greatest respect for sincere religionists, but none whatsoever for professional racketeers in religion, nor for those who use religion as an anti-labor, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-democratic weapon for thwarting the progress of the common man or minorities among them.

I am a Negro and I know, being dark, I have been due in the past to see dark days, but them days is passing. All the fiery crosses in the world is not going to scare me back into where I were before the Harlem riots, Martin Luther King, Adam Powell, and Malcolm X. Also, I might include that lady, Annie Lee Cooper, who hit Sheriff Clark in the eye in Alabama. When a Southern colored woman hits a Southern white sheriff in the eye in a public place like Selma, a new day has come.

When a woman wants to get ahead, she cannot tie a millstone to her feet. Most men is millstones.

We have tomorrow Bright before us Like a flame. Yesterday A night-gone thing, A sun-down name. And dawn-today Broad arch above the road we came.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A foolish man is always doing,Yet much remains to be done.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.