Quotes About Progress

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

I think we agree, THE PAST IS OVER.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

Why are there no "during" pictures?

Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.