Quotes About Progress

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Trish Stratus is a cassette player and I am the newest version of the iTouch. iTouches keep improving. Technology gets better and better. Cassettes are collecting dust.

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.

les mauvaises herbes poussent, elles aussi; preuve qu'on peut devenir grand sans cesser d'être mauvais.

în societatea noastr?, care se afl? în continu? miÈ™care, întârzierile dau uneori avansuri.

The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

DoÄŸrular, doÄŸru haline gelirler ve önemli olan da onlar? buna ulaÅŸt?ran yoldur, buna ulaÅŸmak için kendi üzerinde ve baÅŸkalar?yla birlikte yap?lan çal??mad?r. Bu çal??ma olmadan, bir doÄŸru ancak doÄŸru bir hata olabilir.

We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.

The true self is always in motion—like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes—in writing or life—and do not dwell on them but move on and write more. —Brenda Ueland

Not everything we write will be great. That's natural.

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear.

The AI strategy is implausible.

History shows that the best solutions to scientific problems are simple and elegant.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection?

Doakes was gone. One small piece at a time he was leaving my life and releasing me from the involuntary servitude of Rita's couch. I could live again.

At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.

My story is simple, straightforward, and unassailable. I learned