Quotes About Progress

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than any race, alone, could hope of accomplishing.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.

Beyond a certain point we reach repetition and discover we are on the way back. Thus, life has no purpose beyond what it is at this moment.

Still getting nowhere but it's the journey that matters not the hole at the end of the road.

If you're behind the curve, you're on the crest of a wave.

Traditions have got a lot to answer for. They lose their meaning and we cling on to something that does more harm than good.

Time is like an aeroplane after take off. It is always moving and only goes in one direction.

The first paragraph is the arrow. The last paragraph is the target.

A book is a journey of a thousand paragraphs. You begin with the first one.

Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.

People always want to move forward even when they are just sitting. They lean forward, look sideways, look backwards and even stand up to see what is ahead of them. Realizing they are actually facing a mirror in front of them.

The human race is bound to survival, not for self-destruction.

People who have aged and died with lack of education do not make them less of a person. But for the new generation who are fresh and offered greater education, there is discernment that they can do better and achieve greater heights.

The journey in life never stops as long as you look forward.

The present world is a changing environment and people can only adapt or neglect the pressures of time.