Quotes About Progress

[Upon first seeing a daguerreotype:] From today painting is dead.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

any problem must always contain the seeds of its own solution.

You are good at making sense of most life events in ways that enable you to move on.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

It has been a long transition from interacting with computers using a soldering iron to interacting using a mouse. It has been neither smooth nor planned.

As We May Think

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

to recognize that we are "sinners" or "fallen" is to recognize that there are limits to the human condition and that sound reason and good will of themselves do not automatically ensure progress;

Readily identifies more efficient ways of doing business

a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

it is likewise hard to imagine an early farmer announcing to his neighbours: 'I just want to warn you that, as from the next full moon, I intend to assume the powers of leader, and transform our cosy little segmentary society into a modern, thrusting chiefdom at the cutting edge of progress.

In 1925 a benchwarming rookie. In 1926 a hard hitting regular playing in a world series on a championship team. And in 1927 he was already daring to challenge Babe Ruth for the home run championship.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Here are some indicators of successful management: Things get done well. Problems are not big surprises. Issues get resolved. Progress continues even when managers aren't there. People are engaged with their work and each other. Conflict is productive rather than territorial. New ideas emerge spontaneously from a variety of people.

Does madness ever recede? Can it get better on its own, without therapeutic intervention?

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

The issue is not whether people are "good enough" for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of communication) . . .