Quotes About Progress

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

So LISTEN UP, class! Today we're going to learn all about chain reactions.

I'm wondering if you can speed this story up a bit," Ms. Jordan said. "I spilled pudding on Missy Trillin's head while she was taking a pee." "I see." Ms. Jordan nodded. "Now I think we're getting somewhere.

Ahora por favor.

Just because no human group has achieved some state in the past does not mean that none will achieve it in the future

I might be a bit slow, but I can learn.

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

Good. That is what we do here.

We're here on this planet not to build personal empires of control, but to evolve.

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns not back New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth We must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

What'd you need? Desuetude. Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse. Thanks, man. That it? Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.

Every day we reconstruct ourselves out of the salvage of our yesterdays.

There's a time in life when everything becomes ex—ex-athlete, ex-president, expatriate, x-ray.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

Finish your novel, because you learn more that way than any other.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

In 1950, 10 percent of families had television sets and 38 percent had never seen a TV program. Although 33 million of America's roughly 38 million households in 1945 had radios, these were for the most part bulky things cased in wooden cabinets, and they took time to warm up. Some 52 percent of farm dwellings, inhabited by more than 25 million people, had no electricity in 1945.1

The 1950s witnessed especially rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms, of tobacco, soft drink, and food-processing companies, and of the chemical, plastics, and pharmaceutical industries. IBM blossomed as a leader in the computer business, soon to become a guiding star of the American economy.

But the sluggishness of the economy widened the gulf between grand expectations and the real limits of progress, undercutting the all-important sense that the country had the means to do almost anything, and exacerbating the contentiousness that had been rending American society since the late 1960s. This was the final irony of the exciting and extraordinarily expectant thirty years following World War II.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised