Quotes About Progress

we still have a long way to go in terms of creating a rock-solid science that could match the certainty of, say, physics and biology. In the meantime, we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick.

Ilya Prigogine, chemist; John

A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion.

Change Dynasty

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.

True development does not respect comfort.

No substantial change has ever been managed without risk.

In 1774, John Adams wrote in his diary, "We have not men fit for the times. We are deficient in genius, education, in travel, fortune—in everything.

Vision is the sine qua non of constructive change.

I just looked in to stuff to do to keep me occupied. Alright, I'm gonna start dieting. I'm gonna start working out more. So then I started to lose weight, and then I started to see some results, and I started to drop some weight.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.