Quotes About Progress

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Holding onto history is not nearly as important as where we're headed. Pride matters less than power.

At the end of the day that statue is nothing more than a chunk of granite and copper sitting in front of the library. That statue matters a lot less than the end goal. Holding onto history is not nearly as important as where we are headed. Pride matters less than power.

A key test for any society is whether or not it is self-correcting. And to be self-correcting, it must first be open and truthful about itself.

Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better…just a little at a time.

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

Antony wanted to be whole and to experience more progress in his desire for God. The angelic vision corrected his desire for something "better" than what he was doing. It reassured him to continue his pattern of constant integration of work and prayer, mundane as it was.

As we "press forward to what lies ahead," the transformation we desire already "lies within us.

He would explain that Disney began work on EPCOT on Day One. They put in the vacuum-powered trash system. "That's EPCOT," he'd say.

Animation had been a thriving medium when Walt came along, but was dismissed as amateur entertainment for children. Common were bland, forgettable, poorly drawn characters going through nonsensical antics. Walt himself could barely draw a decent Mickey Mouse.

The pace of growth goes on increasing and in the end it escapes our control.

technological singularity," the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own.

la «singularidad tecnológica», ese acontecimiento futuro en el que la inteligencia de los ordenadores sobrepasaría la nuestra.

We risk being confronted by an explosion of intelligence, a technological singularity, as Vernor Vinge put it. Everything that happens after that lies beyond our event horizon.

Las organizaciones demasiado homogéneas y dogmáticas no consiguen nada.

IS SCIENCE FICTION ABOUT TO GO BLIND?" asks _Popular Science_ associate editor Gregory Mone, apparently worried that this may be a symptom of too much fondling of one's Singularity.

This isn't the end of the story. Maybe it's the end of a part of the story, but not the whole of it.

Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

Leave the past alone, it cannot be reshaped. The future alone is ours. It starts fresh and clean from this very minute.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? —DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND