Quotes About Progress

Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.

I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.

It is important to correct bad behavior one toe at a time.

Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

The old Televisions had an off switch.

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.