Quotes About Progress

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

What do they be teaching the young these days? I declare, they think more on machines and formulas than they do on the true knowledge of the world. They blow things up, and calls it progress. They kills one another by the million, and calls it civilization.

What do they be teaching the young these days? I declare, they think more on machines and formulas than they do on the true knowledge of the world. They blow things up, and call it progress. They kills one another by the million, and calls it civilization... But you takes a single life, just one, and that is murder most foul, and they will pin you for that, and lay it against you the rest of your life. It hardly seems fair.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Becoming is superior to being.

social, artistic and scientific progress as well as technological advance are most evident where the ruling culture and ideology give men and women permission to play, whether with ideas, beliefs, principles or materials. And where playful science changes people's understanding of the way the physical world works, political change, even revolution, is rarely far behind.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

The Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's….ten years from now, the phrase "information economy" will sound silly. (1997)

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.

No vale la pena tener una reforma si se obtiene haciendo tantas concesiones que acaban por condenarla al fracaso.

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

Women, I have long believed, are the more evolved of the species and have attained some higher level of being.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I'm opposed to sneakers without laces. Digital watches and pocket calculators, too. Gizmos that make life easier and dull our minds. Besides being unable to read or write, today's kids have trouble telling time, multiplying nine time seven, and tying their shoes

Fucking things up only takes a few minutes. Making things right, now, that's a lifetime job.

Referring to his success in engineering the appointment

One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the 'not invented here' syndrome, but also the 'we don't have the tooling' syndrome. Why invent something new when you can simply modify what you have?

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too

If we do not step forward, then we will step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.