Quotes About Progress

Progresa. Solo progresa. Está bien tener reveses y la necesidad de volver a hacerlo. Está bien trazar una línea en la arena y empezar de nuevo… y de nuevo. Solo asegúrate de seguir moviendo la línea hacia delante. Avanza. Da pasitos de bebé, pero al menos da pasos que impidan que te quedes atascada. Entonces vendrá el cambio. Y será bueno.

Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress. We are imperfect because we are unfinished.

I'm no longer at the first cliff where the ground fell out from beneath me. But I'm also not all the way across to solid ground where everyone exhales, exhausted but relieved. No, I'm in the middle, which honestly might be the scariest of all places. Moving ahead and turning back are both equally terrifying.

Los cambios imperfectos son pasos pequeños de progreso envueltos en gracia… un progreso imperfecto.

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

The resulting hurt of any form of rejection can linger and entangle us from moving forward if we don't put it behind us.

No desarrollaremos respuestas nuevas hasta que desarrollemos pensamientos nuevos. Es por eso que resulta crucial renovar nuestra mente con nuevos pensamientos.

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Everyday starts as a repetition of the previous day & ends so with the hope that tomorrow will be no different.

The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

Fear diminishes when learning is the focus.

It's 2444. We're all someone.

It will require the renunciation or sublimation or transformation of our traditional appetites: to outbreed, outconsume, and conquer our rivals, especially our rivals in other tribes. These impulses may once have been adaptive. Indeed, they may even be hard-wired into our brains. But we no longer have the luxury of tolerating them. And

Another TX-0 hacker devised what was essentially the first word processor, a program that allowed you to type in your class reports and then format the text for output on the Flexowriter. Since it made the three-million-dollar TX-0 behave like a three-hundred-dollar typewriter—much to the outrage of traditionalists who saw this, too, as a ludicrous waste of computer power—the program became known as Expensive Typewriter.

Ultimately, in fact, they would enter into a kind of symbiosis with humans, forming a cohesive whole that would think more powerfully than any human being had ever thought and process data in ways that no machine could ever do by itself.

Unlike Davies, he didn't have to work through the British Postal Service. And unlike Baran, he didn't have to work through the Defense Communications Agency. Roberts was backed by ARPA, whose whole reason for existing was to cut through the bureaucracy. His bosses were giving him a free hand. And he meant to exercise that freedom. He meant to get this network ready to

However fierce the controversy surrounding its birth, the stored-program concept now ranks as one of the great ideas of the computer age—arguably the great idea.

William B. Shockley, coinventor of the transistor,

M. Mitchell Waldrop

first personal computer—that was the LINC of Wes Clark

Computers and the World of the Future,

The real significance of computing was to be found not in this gadget or that gadget, but in how the technology was woven into the fabric of human life—how computers could change the way people thought, the way they created, the way they communicated, the way they worked together, the way they organized themselves, even the way they apportioned power and responsibility.