Quotes About Progress

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where we have come from in order to better understand where we are heading.

Change is not the enemy of what is sacred. Change is the champion of what is sacred.

We know the old world is collapsing, but the contours of the new world are not yet entirely clear. Some of the call functions of the old models will survive. Many will not, at least not in their present form.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.

You know a lot of things, Uncle,' Gillian said, patting him on the shoulder as if he were a noble steed. 'Learned form books,' Clay promised her. 'You'll know as much once you read more of them. In fact, you'll know more than I do, because new books are always being written.

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You ' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life ' were you?'

Frustration is the seedbed of creativity,invention and ultimately progress.

Homo innove par ce qu il stocke.

Ni fetichiser ni stigmatiser: remplacer Versus par Verso.

History is a struggle between the "old" right that intended to be just and the "new" that promises to be.

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.

New York is a city that will be replaced by another city.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Find optimism in the inevitable

In a laughing mirror-image of the seriousness with which the rest of the world is obsessed with Progress, Coney Island attacks the problem of Pleasure, often with the same technological means.

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.