Quotes About Progress

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

The good is enough additude is not what we're looking for, we have got to use every oppurtunity to improve indivisually so we can improve collectively

If you know you will not be perfect, then those mistakes can roll off your shoulders as you move on to the next play. But if perfection is your ideal, those mistakes will cripple you with frustration. So be realistic, understand that you and others will make mistakes, and use those as building blocks for the future.

Of course, Heraclitus was right. Everything flows; nothing abides.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.

Hwl's thumping began to slow as her cream turned to butter.

Sometimes people have to do new things, things that have never been done before. Everything your foremothers did was new once.

The world turned, ripened, grew hotter and heavier.

She had no idea why it was so much harder for her to folk in Anglisc to anyone but Begu, it just was, though these last weeks she was learning how to let the words come. It helped if there was no weightiness behind them, no import; if they were only words with no life or death hanging in the balance.

A new Tammy, the tentative beginnings of a new life. But there were still a few threads from the old that needed to be dealt with.

It had to happen. It should happen soon.

Old ways are not always the best ways.

Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday's progressive.

Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.

It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.

In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.

The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.

Two hundred years ago it was permissible to trust in the future without being totally stupid. But today, who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday's splendid future?

Modern man fears technology's destructive capacity, when it is its constructive capacity that threatens him.

Opinions, customs, institutions, cities—everything has become vulgar, since we gave up repairing the old in order to buy every day some gaudy novelty.

By means of the notion of "cultural evolution," the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.