Quotes About Progress

That's what I love about people. They have dreams and grand ambitions, and they start building towards them, even though they know they won't live to see them finished. That's how the pyramids were built.

There will always be another goal, another prospect.

Mankind has proven to be pathologically incapable of learning from its own mistakes. It blithely remembers the witness of history, but it does not apply the knowledge it gains.

Toil and blood, effort and hardship, these were payments worth making in return for a greater future. Ideals were never won cheaply, whether the cost was the raising of one dream city or the razing of another.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

Tragedy always moves our story forward in a way shalom could never accomplish.

There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years

All these corporations owe their international scale of business to Henry Ford's ingenious, widespread use of the production line.

One day at a time. Fake it 'til you make it.

I can always feel better, look better, do better. I can learn more, sell more, buy more. I can do more, and do it faster. But what is the price of this perfection? Joy.

I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival;

But if we stop learning stuff," I protested, "we'll get dumber." "In your case," Andrea told me, "that would be impossible.

the year 1790. Computers haven't been invented yet.

But I guess until somebody invents a computer you plug into your head, we'll just have to keep going to school. Bummer in the summer!

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Roman Technology

Today," she said, "we're going to learn about the history of the toilet bowl.

But it won't be

Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.

The postmortem for a problem can be the preamble to a solution.