Quotes About Progress

Get them off the Internet and stop them from looking for shortcuts. The human body does not adapt any faster than it did 30 years ago, so why should we expect performance gains to be accomplished faster today?

training equals testing, and testing equals training.

Training will produce measurable results. Failing to train will also produce a measurable result. The training process is cumulative.

change only one variable at a time. The goal is a functional program, not confusion.

Often an athlete will not see the true results of a significant investment in training for up to a year after the initial training stimulus.

Constant evaluation should lead to change in order to improve.

Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

That's why it is good to remind ourselves that in business and in life, the journey, not the destination, is the reward.

Valleys of Death" — those points in the company's growth where you're bigger, but not quite big enough to have the next level of talent and systems needed to scale the venture.

Advantageous changes to society happen only through the determined work of unreasonable men. Great things happen only when enough

There is a commonly held misconception that progress is always a good thing and that change is invariably for the better. What happened in 2020 is proof, if proof be needed, that this is not always true. The changes which took place were neither progressive nor temporary: they are regressive, and unless we have the strength and the determination to oppose them, they will be permanent.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

tus mejores maestros son tus enemigos.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I've studied the humans for almost twenty years, Rachner. They've been traveling in space for hundreds of generations. They've seen so much, they've done so much…. The poor crappers think they know what is impossible. They're free to fly between the stars, and their imagination is trapped in a cage they can't even see." The glowing streaks had passed across the

From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.' That was easy for Sherkaner Underhill to say. He didn't have to engineer the science into reality.

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