Quotes About Progress

religious experience, inspiring the same kinds of passion that Vannevar Bush's Memex article had given rise to for Engelbart twenty-three years earlier. Computing was just beginning to have an impact on society.

Both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Club, which gave rise to several dozen companies that forged the personal computer industry—including Apple—emerged from the fertile ground that Raymond created.

A decade later Brand's Whole Earth Catalog would begin with the premise "We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Success consists of a series of little daily victories.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Yesterday ended last night.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

It takes as long as it takes.

This is the only place in the whole Rocky Mountain front where you can go from the Great Plains to the summit of the mountains without snaking your way up a mountain face or going through a tunnel. This one feature had more to do with the building of the West than any other factor. I don't diminish the importance of the Oregon Trail, but here you had everything going for you. This point hasn't been made before.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.