Quotes About Progress

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

There are no problems, only solutions.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

Non ci sono problemi solo soluzioni.

La vida es aquello que te va sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

Life is something that happens while you're busy making other plans.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Kennan saw in them the need to regard Bolshevism, "with all its hullabaloo about revolution," not as a turning point in history, but as only another milepost in Russia's "wasteful, painful progress from an obscure origin to an obscure destiny." Nothing in Brown's dispatches or in Kennan's training, however, anticipated the horrors of Stalinism. If

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history.

There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.

The Republic of Ireland didn't have postcodes until 2015.

Information is fleeting. Human records are broken; new particles are discovered; fresh historical documents come to light. Dinosaurs turn out not to be giant grey iguanas after all, but multicoloured feathery proto-birds of all shapes and sizes. Right now, even the daddy of all facts, the Big Bang theory, is looking wobbly.

Before dentists' chairs were invented, the patient's head was clenched between the surgeon's knees.

But even after European medicine changed, medicine in the United States did not. In research and education especially, American medicine lagged far behind, and that made practice lag as well.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician father of the Supreme Court justice, was not much overstating when he declared, "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind—and all the worse for the fishes.

Miner had seen influenza often. He diagnosed the disease as influenza. But he had never seen influenza like this. This was violent, rapid in its progress through the body, and sometimes lethal. This influenza killed. Soon dozens of his patients—the strongest, the healthiest, the most robust people in the county—were being struck down as suddenly as if they had been shot.

Man might be defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature

NOTHING COULD HAVE STOPPED the sweep of influenza through either the United States or the rest of the world—but ruthless intervention and quarantines might have interrupted its progress and created occasional firebreaks.

the prevailing paradigm tends to freeze progress

The chief enemy of progress, ironically, became pure reason.

Nevertheless, the DARPA Robotics Challenge did what it was designed to do: expose the limits of today's robotic systems.

Today Shakey's original DNA can be found in everything from the Kiva warehouse robot and Google's autonomous car to Apple's Siri intelligent assistant.

was not a coincidence that the two men who had the greatest impact on the shape of today's personal computer were among the earliest to fully comprehend the impact of the exponential scaling of microelectronic circuits.