Quotes About Progress

Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself

Whenever you can, swap "Let's think about it" for "Let's decide on it." Commit to making decisions. Don't wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward.

Disruptive innovation is good. Disruption for the sake of disruption is not. Culture

Lean Change Management moves the slider for managing change from using plan-driven aproaches to feedback-driven aproaches

Efficiency is a capitalist term that assumes one has the goal of achieving a certain level of productivity.

No one who is learning should ever feel stupid

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

Stay close, do what I say and make as many mistakes as you want – just never the same one twice.

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

What's with the iMagic name change?' I said without preamble. 'Industrial Magic was a bit of a mouthful,' he explained. 'Besides, putting an iin front of anything makes it more hip and current.

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad —

If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out. And the journey starts NOW.

If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.

It's important to collect evidence,' she said, 'even if disproved. That's how science works. Being proved wrong and then advancing. If I'm proved wrong a lot, I must be making headway, right?

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...

That's the point about failure," I said. "It's an intrinsic part of success. You win some, then you lose some. But with experience and luck, you learn to lose less as the years go on.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough." I

I had learned from my mother's many letters that Mycroft had invented a method for sending pizzas by fax

People say we're just Renaissancites causing trouble, but I've seen Baroque kids, Raphaelites, Romantics and Mannerists here tonight. It's a massive show of classical artistic unity against these frivolous bastards who cower beneath the safety of the word 'progress.' It's not just—

We promote the cure, thus effecting the slow eradication of our own market

A mí me parece que un país civilizado es aquel en que uno no tiene la necesidad de perder el tiempo con la política