Quotes About Progress

If your views don't change over time it means you're fixated on an hypnotic landscape. Move on. There is more to see.

Nowhilism: a rejection of the progress made in the past and ignorance of reality in the present

It's probably a good idea to merge us with real intelligence before merging us with artificial intelligence

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

But struggling and suffering, as I now saw it, were the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not constantly demanding more from yourself—expanding and learning as you go—you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Life is at its most extraordinary during the struggle, not during times of idle contentment

You often take two steps backward to take one step forward.

You often take two steps backwards to take one step forward.

Like all revolutionary new ideas, the subject has had to pass through three stages, which may be summed up by these reactions: (1) "It's crazy—don't waste my time." (2) "It's possible, but it's not worth doing." (3) "I always said it was a good idea." —Arthur C. Clarke

Science makes progress funeral by funeral: the old are never converted by the new doctrines, they simply are replaced by a new generation. —Max Planck

One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.

When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.

Will it ever be perfect?" I wondered. "No," he told me with a smile. "Nothing in life is. But, my dear mademoiselle, life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.

I was merely thinking that it may have been a very grave mistake to introduce you to Lady C. If the pair of you ever put your minds to it, you could probably topple governments together." I smiled as I pocketed the weapon. "One thing at a time, dear Stoker. One thing at a time.

whilst I reboarded my train of thought.

Why, that is most intriguing. A lady scientist," he said in a tone of wonderment. "What will they think of next?

To walk away from something is only half the picture. What are you walking towards?

He was no respecter of institutions simply because they boasted antiquity. He believed, like all good radicals, that everything ought to be examined anew by each generation. What served society should be retained, and what did not should be discarded without sentiment or reserve.

life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.