Quotes About Progress

Sisyfos optimistina: Vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu.

Ihmiset eivät opi paremmiksi, varovaisemmiksi vain.

Joskus minua ihan nolottaa, miten edellä olen muita.

Vaikeinta on unohtaa oppimansa, olla taas tavallinen.

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Every API writer needs to have an evolution plan; that is, to know on a strategic level what will happen to the API in future releases.

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

It would be like climbing up a winding mountain where you can't really see much ahead, then finally realizing you're at the top.

We are now able to use this recognition of body states as useful messages rather than indications of present threats. And by achieving all of this, we will have achieved wisdom—the integration of emotions, the feelings of the body, and our ongoing conscious awareness and thinking. We will have progressed from the state of being a trauma victim to becoming a trauma survivor.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

people's enduring belief in conveniently invisible devils makes the work of science so much harder. It slaps a leash on progress and encourages backward thinking.

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Migration had brought development, to a degree that no one had imagined. And development brought more migration.

Ford convinced the American public to believe in gasoline cars. And then Ford became Ford, and America became America.

Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.

He had always found this a comforting thought, that the age of barbarism was not long past, that if humans failed to be kind it was because they were still children, historically speaking

a quote from Henry Ford: "THINKING ALWAYS AHEAD, THINKING ALWAYS OF TRYING TO DO MORE, BRINGS A STATE OF MIND IN WHICH NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.