Quotes About Progress

most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic logic of ideas that served as causal factors in it

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

amelioration." The diary entry is a remarkable indication that

Open source is characteristically about herd behavior and local hill climbing. There is such a thing as the wisdom of crowds, but it is an inherently conservative wisdom. A crowd can tread a meandering cowpath into a highway. What it will never do, however, is decide to dig a tunnel through the mountain to shorten the path, or to leave the mountain altogether for a better one. THE

We've spent a half-century believing that people should become computer literate. That's precisely backward. Computing should become human literate.

The real agent of change is not computers per se but rather the computation that we are installing into even the most mundane constituents of our everyday surroundings. As we have seen, we are at the point that it is now often cheaper to manufacture digital information processing into an object than it to leave it out. Microelectronics permit even trivial products to be deeply complex and connectible—and that is both the promise and the problem. That

The American experiment was frequently shaped by a rejection of old ways and openness to the new. In religious terms, this rejection created over time a nation unique in its ability to absorb and be built by those of different beliefs; people who believed there were many gods, or none at all.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

The journey transforms the destination.

We must go from boxes to arrows. Tomorrow belongs to those who connect.

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

This will be so much better," Miss Jean Bauer says with her hand on my shoulder. "Caroline will be able to start school in a month and a half and get back to having a regular education like any child here in Oregon." "Yes,

Nature ever flows, never stands still.