Quotes About Progress

Beware of the easy path. Knowledge grows only through challenge.

Why was it, he wondered, that all these stories envisaged technological marvels by the bushel, but seemed to assume that social structure and culture wouldn't change in over four centuries? (Chad Oliver, "The Ant and the Eye")

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?

All the ingredients were there: mechanization, innovation, property rights, and capital.

In essence, financial technology is a time machine we have built ourselves.

The central argument of this book is that financial innovations emerged to solve economic problems of time and geography, but they inevitably engendered new

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

Si todo lo que haces, lo haces para hacer otra cosa, ¿cuándo llegas al final de todo? Sisi

Evolution is not humane, but we could be.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts

The future is today.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.

Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono

Y sin duda la violencia seguirá existiendo hasta cuando nuestras naciones alcancen una democracia verosímil y hagan realidad los supuestos mínimos de igualdad que pregonan sus leyes. La

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.

To keep up with the times these days, it seems you have to be a little bit demented. — "William F. Kinderman".