Quotes About Progress

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Events are like horses, Hettar told him. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be time to put everything together.

Burn Today And Produce a Fire That Lights Up Tomorrow

Even the greatest of heroes and men Are less than what they might have been. —a saying of Mystarria

Este es el reto del ser humano: tener el valor de crear nuevos caminos y dejar las rutas conocidas, para mejorar y crecer.

Most real-world computer programs, however, are significantly asynchronous. This means that they often have to stop computing while waiting for data to arrive or for some event to occur.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.

every failure is also a victory.

Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

We're going to reinvent not just government but history. Torch the past.

Le graduatorie servono a farvi capire a che punto siete, non chi siete. Memorizzate il vostro piazzamento mensile, poi dimenticatelo.

Certe cose non solo non possono essere insegnate, ma possono essere ritardate da altre cose che invece possono essere insegnate

this was a couple years before the sudden advance of someone in the luggage industry realizing that suitcases could be fitted with little wheels and telescoping handles so they could be pulled, which was just the sort of abrupt ingenious advance that makes entrepreneurial capitalism such an exciting system—it gives people incentive to make things more efficient).

Let the call go forth, to pretty much any nation we might feel like calling, that the past has been torched by a new and millennial generation of Americans

It's the digitals. Leith has that word he uses for the shift from analogs to digitals. That word he uses about eleven times an hour.

The dignity of a man risen by will from the ashes of Withdrawal and now on the upswing and with places to go and potentially considerate Canadians to see.

Chu says '… that because you proceed toward mastery through a series of plateaus, so there's like radical improvement up to a certain plateau and then what looks like a stall, on the plateau, with the only way to get off one of the plateaus and climb up to the next one up ahead is with a whole lot of frustrating mindless repetitive practice and patience and hanging in there.

You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

Certain things not only can't be taught but can be retarded by other stuff that can be taught.

All this is just sort of warming up; the whole thing won't be like this.

Siccome ti sono amico, ti risparmio le vaccate. Vuoi sapere da dove vengono i mangiabestie. Stammi a sentire, allora. I mangiabestie non si trovano. Si creano.