Quotes About Progress

Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

One must work with time and not against it.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'

In order to succeed, it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to be is one day ahead of them.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

Whatever life lessons we can glean from having read, perhaps being middle of a book is what really counts as living.

Compare Facebook posts to Gutenberg's Bible, and civilization seems to be going down the drain. But compare tweets to indulgences, and it's much of a muchness.

He was completely interested in humanizing technology.

Innovation," he wrote, "is rarely about a big idea; more usually it's about a series of small ideas brought together in a new and better way.

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said.

We don't do focus groups—that is the job of the designer," said Jony. "It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design."12

Coding gives people the ability to change the world and from my perspective, it's the most important second language and the only language that is global

At a 2018 Apple shareholder meeting, Cook was optimistic about the future of Apple Pay and other contactless payment systems. "I'm hoping to be alive to see the elimination of money,

Cook tiene razón cuando dice que las mejores compañías de América son las más diversas, y Apple está en camino de tener una fuerza laboral más diversa. Los avances son lentos

We are going to innovate ourselves out of this downturn," Jobs declared in 2001 when the PC industry was in recession

In a company that was born to innovate, the risk is in not innovating," Jony said. "The real risk is to think it is safe to play it safe.

Jobs said that he looked to his hero Bob Dylan for inspiration. One of the things that Jobs admired about Dylan was his refusal to stand still. Many successful artists at some point in their careers atrophy: they keep doing what made them successful in the first place, but they don't evolve. "If they keep on risking failure, they're still artists," Jobs said. "Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure.