Quotes About Progress

In 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, "Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence!" Now, more than a century later, we can see the signs of his vision.

A thousand million times, castle technologies had fallen to things like cannon; why should her world be different?

modern states realized that success did not come from having the largest armies or the most favorable tariffs or the most natural resources—or even the most advanced industries. In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.

We're endangered by our own success.

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

Hexapodia as the key insight

It'll all be one in a thousand years.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

Change, like healing, takes time.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Do you think patterns always repeat themselves? like we're all stuck in some dysfunctional cycle, and you always end up right back where you started?

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better…" ~Harland "The Colonel" Sanders

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."—As A Man Thinketh

The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost.

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

The revolving door turns and turns and turns.

Your methods are like slow release fertilizer; over time they produce a bountiful harvest.

Each day is a adventure. And remember, there are no endings... Only new beginnings.

Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.'

life lingers through hurdles,but it actually trains you to the best.

As people and as a planet we suffer from upward mobility and downward nobility.

DID WE WIN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?