Quotes About Progress

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

Michael was silent. "Too often," I said, "technology evokes a sense of wonder instead of understanding, and I think this makes it a corrosive force which sometimes requires opposition.

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here;

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

You can run from change, but you can't run away from change.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

Ideeën zijn de motor van vooruitgang.

The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, and the highest rate of metabolism. "Velocity" and "density" are not words many people use when describing suburbia.

We need to build the infrastructure of the future, not just patch up that of the past. Failure to do so will only stall the current Reset and hold back recovery. We must make intelligent investments in new infrastructure that can move beyond the constraints of our current energy-inefficient, environmentally destructive, time-devouring infrastructure. We need to increase the velocity of moving people, good, and ideas.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

There is no final truth in palaeontology. Every new observer brings something of his or her own: a new technique, a new intelligence, even new mistakes. The past mutates. The scientist is on a perpetual journey into a past that can never be fully known, and there is no end to the quest for knowledge.

In this fashion, knowledge begets questions which beget new technology which provides answers--which in turn beget questions. This is the implacable carousel of research.

There has been a revolution in our understanding over the last forty years, and the gains in knowledge are permanent. But we will never know everything, and that is as it should be. From the obscuring mist of the past, science has ensured that some of the mountains have emerged into clear view, but as soon as that happens the misty shadows of further peaks are glimpsed in the distance, rank upon rank: so many other heights to climb, so many mysteries to investigate.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

You become what you want to be, by consistently being what you want to become each day.

Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.

further improvements in the quality of life no longer depend on further economic growth: the issue is now community and how we relate to each other.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.'350

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

proceeds and walking

Sometimes when you are feeling buried, you're just planted

We resurrected our history in order to sell tickets and make money from it, but it's more powerful than we are. It's like we resurrected a monster and now we can't control it. Sometimes it feels like progress is impossible, because the dead are running the show.