Quotes About Progress

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention.

As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.

The owner of an iPod or iPad is in a fundamentally different position: his machine may have far more computational power than a PC of a decade ago, but it is designed for consumption, not creation. Or,

The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do; rather, their value is in exposing a working model to more minds that might muse upon it and imagine a more evolved version. And

a "wireless telephone," the ancestor of our mobile phone, of which, by 1916, Bell already had a working prototype.

Hollywood's content, AT&T's lines, and Apple's gorgeous machines—an information paradise of sorts, succeeding

Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.

We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here.

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced."24

Far ahead of his time, and to the criticism of isolationists in his own party, Roosevelt tried to get the major nations of the world to come together and take stock of the globe they shared.

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The one-way plow would later be cursed as the tool that destroyed the plains because of its efficiency at ripping up grass.

Americans are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of the land," said the new president, Herbert Hoover, who took office in 1929. He

The Negro is among us and the race should be encouraged to progress, but that path should never lead to social mingling," warned the Indianapolis Star in 1921.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Life is too short to be small.

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists

My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.