Quotes About Progress

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

whoever approaches his goal dances

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction.

In the end, she had said, there will be nothing that cannot be simulated. And this will be the final abridgment of privilege. This is the world to come. Not some other. The only alternate is the surprise in those antic shapes burned into the concrete.

You got good eyes, she said. Yes mam, he said. I always did. Well I guess so, she said. You dont normally start out with bad ones and they get better.

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.

Se le regole che hai seguito ti hanno portato fino a questo punto, a che servono quelle regole?

Tus ideas sobre empezar de nuevo. O las de otro. No se empieza de nuevo. Ese es el quid. Cada paso que das es para siempre. No puedes eliminarlo. ¿Entiendes lo que te digo?

Every step you take is forever

Out of their anterior lives they had arrived at the same understanding as their fathers before them. That movement itself is a form of property.

Is history about money?

After a while he said: It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm saying?

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them.

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

The road to infinity may well unravel fresh rules as it goes.

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction

But anyone who doesnt understand that the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant events in human history hasnt been paying attention. It's up there with fire and language. It's at least number three and it may be number one. We just dont know yet. But we will.

Then all rode on and none looked back.

When the boy asked him if this knowledge were a special knowledge only to the blind the blind man said that it was not. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had no time to sharpen them.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.