Quotes About Progress

By "developing" the planet, we have been reducing Earth to a new type of barrenness.

In Interior Castle she describes seven different "mansions" of the soul and the progress by which prayer and spiritual practice take us into the innermost place of mystical marriage of the soul with God. In The Life of

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple--not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had freed itself. Nature had had her way.

The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

It's hard to build large-scale, general-purpose quantum computers. I hope that we can cross that hurdle soon and build general-purpose quantum computers with hundreds or thousands of quantum bits. But the most important hurdle is in our own understanding. Unless we can understand how the world processes information at a quantum level, we will remain in the dark.

It's not a fantasy to explore this question about making computers that are much, much, more powerful than the kind that we have sitting around now -- in which a grain of salt has all the computational powers of all the computers in the world.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators.

The dilemma of choosing our identity is an ongoing progress that forces us…to decide consciously or unconsciously the direction in which we will expend our energy.

There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today.

Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

It's only by facing things that you ever put them behind you. -Mrs. McConnell to Susan

It's a time now of new beginnings.