Quotes About Progress

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going

We ought not to flatter ourselves with any idea of "absolute" or "final" rigor in contemporary mathematics. In a science that is not yet dead and mummified, there is not and cannot be anything perfect.

The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us.

Marx was concerned to change society or rather, if he adhered rigidly to his system, expected society to change in the way he wanted.

It is important to remember that events now long in the past were once in the future.

it is not really in most vendors' interest for the standards definition process to ever stop.

Cuando se ama no se razona. Cuando se razona parece que no se ama. Cuando se razona después de haber amado, se comprende por qué se amaba. Cuando se ama después de haber razonado, se ama mejor. He aquí el sendero del progreso de las almas

Todos os dias sob todos os pontos de vista vou cada vez melhor.

Every day, in every way. I'm getting better and better.

Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.

Penser, c'est aller d'erreur en erreur.

The revolution has achieved nothing – History will be the judge of that

Cuando el tren empezó a moverse y a salir de la estación, me asomé a la ventanilla. Pero no miré atrás, sino adelante. Como debe ser. En los viajes, lo mismo que en la vida, nunca hay que mirar al furgón de cola donde llevamos el equipaje del pasado, sino a la locomotora que nos conduce al porvenir. (Aunque parezca que este pensamiento lo he robado de la hoja de un calendario, juro que se me ha ocurrido a mí. Por si acaso.) (P. 192).

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

The man was to be pitied, a simplistic dinosaur incapable of comprehending the new dynamics of the educational suprasystem and the role of academics as change-agents.

People should draw lessons from the past, but those who look constantly behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backsides

people should draw lessons from the past, but those who constantly look behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backside.

Stop the rot or lose the plot.

Think about the future and don't dwell on the past. -Aaron Jhinkoo

Come. Your future awaits." "What kind of future hides out in the Ghost of Internets Past?" R.C.

did for a bit. Now I can't believe I ever used those things. Think