Quotes About Progress

Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room.

As I'm sure you know, the expression 'It's all uphill from here' has nothing to do with walking up stairs - it merely means that things will get better in the future.

What might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey.

Your initial opinion on just about anything will change over time.

We've discovered a way to dilute

I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.

but you can't invent things like time,"Violet said. "You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end

We're not out of the woods yet.

Celebrate when you're half done, And the finish won't be half as fun.

A lock isn't going to stop us. Not when we've come all this way.

I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.

the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now.

If change is the only constant in the universe, then software change is not only constant but ubiquitous.

12.2 The Basis for the CBAM

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. —Henry Ford

Berlin. 25 June 1940. I have the impression that we are rushing for a common currency for the whole of Europe. That would be progress, of course, and, one would hope, of lasting significance. Letter from Helmuth von Moltke (military intelligence)1

Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn the names of his staff. It's the price we pay for progress.

we are trying to check out. The picture may be vague, or it may be very precise. Either way, every fresh result is something to be thought about and incorporated, either as reinforcement or as a step in a new direction. As more results come in the excitement builds, reaching a peak when quick calculations show that the results are going according to plan.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.