Quotes About Progress

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with knowledge than their hearts yearned to dispense blessings to the less fortunate of their race.

Today--the partial result, the pain; Tomorrow--fruition, the perfect part.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees - upon being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

Practice makes perfect.....But nobody's perfect......so why practice?

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

If you can do more, you should!

Let the tent be struck.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.