Quotes About Progress

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

They wanted me to crawl," she told Magdalena finally. "And I'm ready to run.

we can't expect anything important in life to be easy or entirely enjoyable

You don't have to let the past write your future.

Not every shift in understanding is good, since we make good and bad decisions, but we can never learn without being open to change in our thinking.

what's done is done", that the past cannot be changed, and that the future can be changed because it is "open". To

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.

Betamax is the wave of the future

We have been swamped by a tsunami of new technologies, without pausing to consider whether they are good or bad, helpful or hurtful. Are they making us more thoughtful, more articulate, more loving?

Technology at its finest is easy to adopt, quick to implement, and bound to be underappreciated.

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

I want to learn and continue to learn. It's the only way to stay alive.

Today we have different idols. . . We have trusted in human reason, science, and technology to solve our problems and progress toward a better world and a prosperous life. Yet idolatry brings death.

I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can't do today.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

You are one choice away from your best decision ever.

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.