Quotes About Progress

Onward and upward.

would have to find something else, he thought mazily. Something new. Couldn't stay here anymore. Couldn't go back. Only forward.

You know what Arthur C. Clarke said about technology and magic, right? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating

Though I feel like were only just about to get started. We wouldn't star over, we'd just start.

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals.

You had to face yourself and deal with your shit, that's how you got somewhere.

had only been at SUM a year

It is obvious that he has set himself an impossible task; slow and gradual transformations are possible, they even happen quite frequently, but they do not lead us to a new life; they only take us from one old life to another old life. The new life always makes itself known abruptly, without any approach or preparation, and it keeps its strange enigmatical character in the midst of events whose course has been determined by the old laws.

If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of the gods and not of men. Ten lives would not suffice Aristotle to assimilate all the knowledge that has been accumulated on earth since his death, and Alexander would perhaps be able to realize his dream and conquer the world.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek ' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

Don't be afraid to start at the bottom of the ladder. And have the courage to climb to the top.

Take the time to understand what's behind your success. It's the best way to ensure it will continue.

Wouldn't it be nice if life took a cue from horse racing and a gun went off when it was time for us to get moving? Life rarely sends us a signal as clear as a starter's pistol. It's up to us to recognize when it's time to just start.

We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

The only cure for grief is action.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.