Quotes About Progress

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say "I'll never be good". You can become better! and one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.

Keep on starting and finishing will take care of itself.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

One of the nice things about time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

Getting through Lake Tahoe was already like L.A., with construction all over the place

One day I feel I'm on top of the world And the next it's falling in on me I can get back on I can get back on One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel, And the next it's rolling over me I can get back on I can get back on It's a far cry from the world we thought we'd inherit It's a far cry from the way we thought we'd share it

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose...

With the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events.

One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of "crap.

As Thoreau implied, telegraphy made relevance irrelevant.

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything".

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.

Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies