Quotes About Progress

Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now.

Schopenhauer's saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.

we all make mistakes, but if you don't learn quickly enough, you'll not survive in this sport.

He set in place a system whereby every area of performance was explored. The idea was that if small percentage improvements were made in numerous areas – diet, psychology, aerodynamics, ergonomics – the cumulative improvement would be substantial. In a nutshell, if you did every little thing right then almost without noticing you could achieve something big.

as soon as anything even remotely one percent promising starts to happen, you really jump on it with great enthusiasm and build on it quickly.

as I really don't think I draw all that well, but it was interesting to see that some of the drawings worked better than others, and why.

Every work, no matter how short or antilinear, needs momentum;

David Sosnowski

once a computer starts directing changes to its own programming . . .

David Sosnowski

Each a frog in its own pot of water as the temperature ticked up a degree at a time.

Augustus" (from the verb augeo "to make to grow or to increase")

Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.

Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed

Conocí a un piloto que decía: si nadie está tratando de adelantarte, preocúpate. Quizá es que vas el último.

Todos cometemos errores en esta vida, tú también los cometerás, y lo único importante es levantarse y enderezar lo que dejaste torcido.

Mis queridos niños carecen de imaginación, el único futuro que conciben es idéntico al pasado

Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age

The young immigrants in the garment factories, alight with a spirit of progress, impatient with the weight of tradition, hungry for improvement in a new land and a new century, organized themselves to demand a more fair and humane society.

It is not well to forget the past," Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical.

Douglass played the prophetic role of the "suffering servant" with zeal. His famous statement about agitation, delivered in a speech in 1857, has stood the test of time and numerous protest ideologies: "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the past bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean