Quotes About Progress

look backward for answers to future problems may be left behind.

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

dining room and up the stairs to

The very act of mentoring changes and matures the mentor as well as the mentee. This is the reason it's so important to encourage mentees to mentor others. Unless and until they mentor others, the mentoring process is of limited value.

The science of replacement says that in order for us to be better people, our goals should be to replace our worst habits and focus our attention in other places.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

There is no finish line. So love the journey.

the next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

Science had been a type of publishing and now it is becoming a network.

After just three days, the system so mastered the game that it was able to beat the prior version of AlphaGo a hundred games out of a hundred.

We don't use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work.

The mall owes its existence to Level II complexity: malls weren't feasible before there were cars, yet you could not predict their rise just by examining a car.

how we predict shows us how we think the future happens and thus how the world works.

For three thousand years, the Egyptians held to a cyclical view that year after year proved itself to be true: the seasons came and went, life in the farms and villages remained basically the same, and the idea of progress was as foreign as soft-serve ice cream.

Antiquity and modernity are cut from the same cloth. That is to say, our sense of things being 'ancient' is produced—both historically and in practice—by the sense that we ourselves are 'modern'.

la de que las sociedades humanas podían disponerse según etapas de desarrollo, cada una con sus tecnologías y formas de organización características (cazadores-recolectores, agricultores, sociedad industrial urbana, etcétera).

The idea of civilization has always been linked to the desire for universal history; a history that transcends written records, extending back in time to the origins of our species, outwards in space to encompass the full range of contemporary human diversity, and—at least in its early formulations—onwards into some improved future condition.

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.

Feeling far away from what we want tells us one of two things about our work: that we are at the beginning or that we have forgotten where we were going.

There is no possibility of pursuing a work without coming to terms with all the ways it is impossible to do it. Feeling far away from what we want tells us one of two things about our work: that we are at the beginning or that we have

When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do.

John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.

Today's cloud is tomorrow's puddle.