Quotes About Progress

It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.

After all, they had barely managed to win the war, and at once they had gone off to conquer the solar system, while at home they had passed edicts which . . . well, at least the idea was good.

The man contains—not the boy—but earlier men

he could remember the prewar days, the other times. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the World's Fair; the former better world.

It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people. And

We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

Yes, these new young people, of the rising generation, who did not remember the days before the war or even the war itself—they were the hope of the world.

Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans.

Bize geçmiÅŸi hat?rlamayanlar onu tekrar etmeye mahkumdur, denir, ama belki de bu daha iyidir. Belki de iyi olan tek ÅŸey budur; unutmay? baÅŸarmak.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

Ubik talks to us from the future, from the end state to which everything is moving; thus Ubik is not here—which is to say now—but will be

No es un instinto animal lo que nos hace sentirnos insatisfechos. Les diré lo que es: la aspiración más alta del hombre, la necesidad de crecer y progresar..., de encontrar cosas nuevas..., horizontes nuevos. De extenderse y conquistar nuevos territorios, nuevas experiencias; de comprender y vivir en una evolución permanente. De dejar de lado la rutina y la repetición, de romper la insensata monotonía de la costumbre e ir adelante, y no detenerse...

You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople. In panic he thought, I'm dependent on them. Thank god they stayed.

If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere.

To himself he thought, I was born in the wrong century. A hundred years ago this wouldn't have happened and a hundred years from now it will be illegal.

It would be nice to live in the world of tomorrow. With robots and rocket ships to do all the work. You could just sit back and take it easy. No worries, no cares. No frustrations.

En otras palabras, estos objetos quedan superados al año de ser lanzados al mercado: inútiles, pequeños, insuficientes. Si no son reemplazados, si no compras uno nuevo, un modelo más perfeccionado...

History is passing us by.

engineer finishes

The mortal human only anticipates as a lower lifeform, the form to come....

Don't let anybody kid you about the wheel, son; money was mankind's first significant invention.

Si este lugar estuviera màs próximo a Terra, habría latas de cerveza vacias y platos de plástico por todas partes. Los árboles habrían desaparecido. Habría motores a reacción viejos tirados en el agua. Las playas despedirían un hedor de mil demonios. Construcciones Terranas habría instalado ya un par de millones de pequeñas casas de plástico.

The first robot was built in 1979. By 2000 all routine work was done by robots. Human beings were free to do what they wanted. Art, science, entertainment, whatever they liked.