Quotes About Progress

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

None of us are ever who we were yesterday.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

These windings up of unfinished years continue till the unfinished life winds up.

I once took over a State which was faced by complete ruin, thanks to its trust in the promises of the rest of the world and to the bad regime of democratic governments… I have conquered chaos in Germany, re-established order and enormously increased production… developed traffic, caused mighty roads to be built and canals to be dug, called into being gigantic new factories and at the same time endeavored to further the education and culture of our people. I

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt.

Death isn't what it used to be

When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he knew that he surprised no one, that no one expected scientists to look like scientists anymore.

With the city like this, don't we have greater needs than poetry?

William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.

The revolutionaries want a new country in a new world, one they cannot see but believe they can build. And they believe that in so doing, the builders will also build themselves anew.

Time was doing what time always does, going faster & faster as if downhill.

The assumption – and I think it's correct – is that the technology is going to happen anyway, so the best thing is to get it distributed as quickly as possible and see what people use it for, and keep an eye out for any problems that arise.

Tutte le note erano come a strati, un palinsesto di interpretazione in progresso. Feci archeologia.

Twilight, even remembered twilight, is better than no light at all. It would be equally absurd to say that there is nothing we can learn from the revolution. To deny that the sumerki of October can be ours, and that it need not always be followed by night.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping

One step at a time is good walking.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Life begins the day you start a garden.