Quotes About Progress

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen -- the Internet -- has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author -- then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

Natural theology, in other words, is in no way a step on the way toward the theology which takes God's self-revelation as its starting point. It is more likely, in fact, to lead in the opposite direction.

the history of Christian attempts to discern the signs of the times makes discouraging reading. At

This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple Leaf flag)

Marx championed technical progress and his attitude was strongly Eurocentric, including a lack of interest in the problems of underdeveloped countries.

Marxism does not provide any specific method of solving questions that Marx did not put to himself or that did not exist in his time. If his life had been prolonged for ninety years he would have had to alter his views in ways that we have no means of conjecturing.

moral perfection is possible only on condition that infinite progress is possible, and infinite progress, in turn, is possible only if our existence is infinite.

Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect ; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise.

The past was once the future, and it wrought In the high presence of on-looking thought ; All that we have, was by its efforts brought.

Gays are now allowed to serve openly in the military. So maybe our next war could be a musical.

New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?

If we would only move straight ahead in faith, the path would be opened for us . But we stand still, waiting for the obstacle to be removed, when we ought to go forward as if there were no obstacles at all.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

But you couldn't mourn forever. Or you could, but as it turned out there were better things to do.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that.

If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

June ripened into July, then burst and withered and dried and became August.

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either.

Nothing a recovering addict likes more than a tale of how bad it had been in the old days, and how low a fellow addict had sunk. Let the one-downsmanship begin.