Quotes About Progress

Even if we wanted to remake higher education," assert professors and administrators alike, "we don't think there is anything that can replace what we already have." Of course, the fact that in the past everyone claimed "this time is different," does not rule out the possibility that this time really is different.

To dream, to imagine, for in that is the best hope of rebuilding, of recovering, of growing...

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.)

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress. Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you´re alive it isn't.

Another time, another place.

The upward spiral was checked from the mid-1980s and reversed around 1990. For the last couple of decades, the G7 share has been torqueing downward at a mighty pace. Today it is back to the level that it first attained at the very beginning of the nineteen century.

To put it sharply, reducing the cost of moving goods while the cost of moving ideas remained high was the root cause of the "Great Divergence.

the chapter explains the three-cascading-constraints perspective by walking through, in sequence, the situation where all three constraints were binding (before 1820), the situation where only two were binding (up to 1990), and finally, today's situation where only one is binding.

The best thing about the future is that it's in front of you. The best thing about the past is that it lies behind.

Nauki nigdy do??". Je?li masz wra?enie, ?e wiesz ju? wszystko, to jest oczywi?cie sygna?, ?e czego? nie wiesz.

In my experience, the biggest challenge people face is learning to get out of their own way. When you can see just how easy change can be, you can begin to take control over your life and make all the changes you want—but you need to take the action.

We have been trained to believe that change isn't easy and requires a lot of effort and a lot of time. I've always found this to be simply not true.

When I studied phobias, I didn't study the people who had them. I studied the people who got over them.

When you understand where you are in your development and what stage is coming up next, you can make choices that anticipate future challenges and thereby accelerate the pace of your development.

Listen. We are on a flight from Jerusalem to Antioch with a change at Schiphol. Whatever the destination, there is always a change at Schiphol.

What's been happening in your life lately? What's the greatest challenge in your life right now? What's the most significant thing happening in your life right now? You sound like you're carrying a heavy load. Is there any way I can help? How can I pray for you?

The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today. When it came to investments, the romantic appeal of being a party to this technological revolution often dominated profit considerations.