Quotes About Progress

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

We don't like the storms because they challenge us! But for this very reason exactly, we must like them! Whoever challenges us gives us the opportunity to rise higher!

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That's why mankind must change the end of the road!

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!

You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!

You can't fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!

You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!

You may believe whatever you want; but the most important thing is to update you belief with the truth, with the science! Your dearest belief might be the biggest buncombe ever! Don't be sad! Continue your road with the new truth! Everything changes!

You need new roads to discover new places!

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Yet if someone comes to know something well, they soon tire of it and seek out something new, and repeat this pattern again and again, continually anxious to know new things, never lingering on what they've learned.

The pupa stage is a short "rest stop" before it becomes an adult.

The changing they do is easiest to see when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. That is a

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Where did we go right?

They make us live in the crap, and now they're taking the crap away? No!

One day, Ryan thought bitterly as he watched the inbound steamer come lumbering up the Clyde as if it had declared war upon the ocean — one day the sky would be black with smoke and the sea just a constant din of engines. Gone forever would be the pavane of man, sail and wind, the elegant, pagan dance of wood and water, sweat and sinew. That day, Ryan would mourn.

Le cose che non sono state durano sempre. Non voltarti indietro

La stabilità del potere spegne le speranze di quanti non l'hanno e che potrebbero ottenerlo solo per un mutamento di governo, perché è l'instabilità ad assicurare i rivolgimenti della fortuna di cui quasi tutti hanno bisogno per migliorare la propria condizione.

Above all, the take-home message from this book is that we humans tend to overestimate AI advances and underestimate the complexity of our own intelligence. Today's