Quotes About Progress

December 5 is what I saw as we walked together on October 5, let's go, let's go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

I love you so soundly and I will do anything to drag you forward.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far

Y comencé a hacer planes, pensando que llegaríamos tan lejos.

Progress, for Comte, unlike Condorcet, is not indefinite, but continuous. And there is no room for surprise or the whims of personal liberty. It was no wonder, then, that the doctrines of Enlightenment and social science, touted to liberate man from the tyranny of the priesthood, would soon establish their own tyranny. Comte and his successors could not imagine that their gospel of progress might prove as ephemeral as the fictions of theologians or the abstractions of metaphysicians.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

After all, neither the French Revolution nor any of the other revolutions that occurred in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century had ushered in eras of glorious reform, let alone utopias. On the contrary, they had resulted in periods of terror and/or sustained counterrevolutionary repression.

Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

No one can ever know in advance if a project is going to result in something useful. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not—and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

Strauss shook his head. The point I've been trying to make is that this money is intended for research. No one can ever know in advance if a project is going to result in something useful. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not—and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

He laughed and then he got up from his chair and went to the window. The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth. And I think you'll find that as you progress, there will be many things you'll want to talk to me about. I just want you to remember that this is the place for you to come when you need help.

experimental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be.

Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

I was on a down escalator now. If I stood still I'd go all the way to the bottom, but if I started to run up maybe I could at least stay in the same place. The important thing was to keep moving upward no matter what happened.

Ch?ng có ai là ng??i thá»±c sá»± b?t ??u má»™t cái má»›i c? [...]. Ai cÅ©ng ??ng lên t? th?t b?i c?a ng??i khác.

I've got to work out the rule. If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information to whatever else has been discovered about mental retardation and the possibility of helping others like myself, I will be satisfied. Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

I know I should have written some progress reports before this so they will know whats happening to me. But writing is harder. I have to look up even simple words in the dictionary now and it makes me angry with myself.

Você não pode construir um novo edifício em uma área até destruir o que existia antes, e o antigo Charlie não pode ser destruído. Ele existe.

Eu estava em uma escada rolante para baixo agora. Se eu ficasse parado, iria direto pra baixo, mas, se eu começasse a subir a escada, talvez conseguisse ao menos ficar no mesmo lugar. O importante era seguir me movendo pra cima independentemente do que acontecesse.

I've got to guard against the natural tendency to look down on them now that I have surpassed them.

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.