Quotes About Progress

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

Cable TV was also born of a kind of piracy. When

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air, self-propelled vehicle could fly. The moment was electric and its importance widely understood. Almost immediately, there was an explosion of interest in this newfound technology of manned flight, and a gaggle of innovators began to build upon it.

There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are," he'd say. "It's only your next move that matters.

Steve once told me that the gestation of great products takes much longer than it appears. What seems to emerge from nowhere belies a long process of development, trials, and missteps.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

the history of science cannot be written by pulling scientific 'firsts' out of their historical context, but only by seeing with eyes and minds of our historical characters.

I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

where you're going, you rush around busily. It gives the impression of action. What more could

history is change. You can't stop it; all you can do is try to keep from getting run over by it.

He knew what was going on in painting in this country in the Fifties and Sixties. Abstract Expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimal, Op-Art, Less-is-More, Flat, all the avant-garde idiocies. But Maitland paid no attention to it. He went his way. Traditional. Representational. If he painted a tit, it was a tit.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Things are not revolutionalized by making revolutions, The real revolution lies in the solution of existing problems.

Here is a fact which may seem discouraging at first blush, but one which on reflection will encourage and inspire confidence; immense industrial undertakings do not need great men.

And what about motor-cars?' 'So much the better,' replied the Great Authority: 'they will no longer be able to run in the streets.

Una nueva sociedad crea su hogar, ese receptáculo de la vida.