Quotes About Progress

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

Let's walk a little farther together. Do you mind?" "Yes. Let's walk a little farther together.

Every day counts.

but doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.

once the machine is put into gear, it must run its course.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

At what stage such a man might start styling himself as 'king' must have varied from case to case.

For a king and a country that were becoming increasingly reliant on long-distance travel

from Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, without being selective.

for those at the bottom of the ladder,

in the autumn of 684, Theodore – now in his early eighties – had been obliged to make his way laboriously northwards

If we had to sum this new society up in a single word, we might describe it as feudal— but only if we were prepared for an outbreak of fainting fits among medieval historians.

The combination of fast-moving ships with sails may have been the crucial development

More than anyplace else, California seems determined to prove that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a lie.

Sometimes scientific progress forces us to reevaluate the wisdom of the past. Other times, it reinforces it. The

getting things wrong is part of a music critic's life … That's probably the most crucial advice I could give a young critic—plan on getting a lot of things wrong.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Destruction is also creation.

La vie à la fin n'est qu'une habitude qu'il faut perdre après toutes les autres.

Nos jours ne sont beaux que par leur lendemain.