Quotes About Progress

we shall quickly find ourselves about as important to the algorithms as animals currently are to us.

When you are born in one century and find yourself walking around in another there's a certain infirmity to your footing. May we all be so lucky to live long enough to see our time turn to fable.

The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. (…) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.

The basis of the Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. Ruth Swain in "History of the Rain

Partire e fermarsi sono le due cose più difficili

The HPI measures two things: the well-being of nations and the sustainability of nations.

I feel so completely crazy sometimes. I don't know which way I'm facing. All I can do is just shove all this shit to the side and try to move forward.

Basically I've just really been trusting in the process here. I want it to work. I want to change and I actually have hope that it might be possible. A lot of this is due to some of the more intense alternative therapies they offer here, like Somatic Experiencing. Through these sessions I've been able to recall events from my childhood that I had completely suppressed from my memory.

The world's turning a whole lot faster than it should be.

It seems to fit. I feel comfortable in my own skin. I feel like I'm able to claim my own person. At least I'm making a start. I'm learning to stand on my own.

Maybe I don't want it to pass because that would mean an acceptance that life is like this: just a gradual process of loss.

Better to start too slowly and build up," said a piece of text in italics, "than start too quickly and give up.

How was it that time only flowed in one direction, implacable and impersonal, dragging everyone with it, and couldn't be stopped and turned back to that one moment?

Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.

La cosa, si disse, sarebbe passata perché nella vita le cose passano sempre, come in un fiume. Anche quelle difficili che ti sembra impossibile superare, le superi, e in un attimo te le trovi alle spalle. Devi andare avanti. Ti aspettano cose nuove.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Winter always turns into Spring

500th LETS GOOO

The first kibbutzim were founded in Palestine in 1910, and, by 2009, there were 267 kibbutzim scattered throughout modern Israel. These groups account for only 2.1 percent of the country's Jewish population but 40 percent of the national economic agricultural output and 7 percent of the industrial output.

The arc of our evolutionary history is long. But it bends towards goodness

The fundamental reason is that we each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society.