Quotes About Progress

We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts in the local Extra and the alco station; online banking; self-driving taxis; an automated triage system in the hospital. One by one, the bots came and replaced us.

Now is the first day of the rest of your strife.

Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach.

Thing about that ladder, Shiv, each rung you climb there's another arse waiting to be licked." "What a lovely image." "We all need some poetry in our lives.

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him...

I've just worked out what the music on the speakers is," he said. "It's John Martyn, Over The Hill." "And ?" "And nothing. It's just, maybe I'm not there yet.

1446, that's when the foundations were laid. It took forty years to complete." "Sounds like some builders I know," Rebus said. "Can't you feel it?" Sithing was staring at Rebus. "Right at the core of your cynical heart, can't you feel something ?" "It's just indigestion, thanks for asking." Rebus rubbed his chest.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

The city disappears street by street as you enter it.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Maxwell's equations didn't just change the world. They opened up a new one.

technologies (reflecting new and more complex behaviors) do not tend to be associated with the appearance of new kinds of hominid. It was old kinds of hominid that started to do new things, even though those new things always seem to indicate a step up in cognitive complexity.

some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.

How our horizons shrink when we stride towards them.

I don't think your insecurity ever disappears. Sometimes I think the more successful you become the less secure you feel. This is kind of frightening, really.

The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.

Earlier, Man ruled woman by force. Now he rules her by making a fool out of her, that is, by making her superior. There is double benefit in ruling by making her superior. She is made doubly responsible. He makes woman superior to himself and brings her out of her home... provides an opportunity to work side by side with him.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

Only a fool trips on what is behind them.

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time.

survival mode. I was already thinking, Okay, what's next?