Quotes About Progress

Funny how words disappeared, became quaint and ridiculous, like fashions and opinions you once held dear.

there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.

If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future.

It was as if she were being picked up and put down again in each new stage of her life like a chess piece. She

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Nothing is forever except change.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. —The classic conscious auto-suggestion created by the famous French psychologist and pharmacist (the "father of auto hypnosis"), Émile Coué (1857–1926)

Whoever was doing the crossword was halfway through

Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now. She had

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

obsolete subject headings; for example, the word aeroplanes was replaced by airplanes.

to have reached perfection that the seeds of its decay begin to germinate.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.

I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.