Quotes About Progress

Vi er som brever som er sendt ut: vi befiner os ikke længer under befordringen, vi er kommet frem. Så er det da om vi har hvirvlet glæder og sorger op ved vårt indhold eller vi intet indtryk har efterlat.

God is forgotten, the mighty dollar has taken his place and the mechanic cannot ease the troubled soul. The road is closed. Under circumstances such as these America only increases speed. America will not stop for anything, it wants to get on, go on, forge a way ahead. Should America turn back? Absolutely not! It simply increases the pace a hundredfold, acts the hurricane and whips life up to a white heat. In Europe nowadays we have the word Americanism, the old days had festina lente.

Men dagene gik igjen og det skedde intet galt fordi dagene gik.

Tredje slektledd råder nu i Jensens store krambod på Segelfoss. Grunnleggeren var Per Jensen, kallet Per på bua, det fortsatte med hans sønn Theodor, Theodor på bua, som drev det meget vidt og ble pott og panne og fremskrittsmann i byen. Det er ikke lenger siden, folk minnes ham godt, han var samtidig med gammelløytnantens sønn, han som bare brydde seg om musikk og ikke ble til noe.

Men tiden går, går storartet. Det er ikke en synlig hånd som skyver på, men går gjør det, aldrig set slikt, det er ingenting før det er høst.

Hvorledes det gik i byen? Det gik ikke, nei.

Høibro kunde ikke forstå at denne tørre fremskridtskvinde med kort hår blandet sig i slike spørsmål som ægteskapet, hun stod i hans forestilling som en art hanmenneske i skjørter, et væsen av det tredje kjøn; stak man hul på hende vilde hun blø sand.

The only way to get to where you want to go is to take a step in that direction. And the best way to do that is to begin.

Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.

To put it in terms of information theory, the new technology overwrites the old one. The technology saved under a new file name survives as a new species.

Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.

Darwin says people like you need to die." (Carrow)

We fail; we learn. Unless we fail to learn.

Cryptology used to be the realm of linguists. Now it's dominated by the geeks." She said this proudly, as if she was one among them. "We're going to rule the world, you know?" What Holly didn't understand was that when she said things like this, she didn't sound like a geek—she sounded like a Valkyrie.

The right place at the right time never comes to people standing still." —CHLOE TODD, A.K.A. BABY T-REX, OLYMPIC HOPEFUL, UNWITTING IMMORTAL

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The right place at the right time never comes to people standing still.

Nonetheless, onward is just another way of saying the time is now.

You have so much to look forward to, if you'd just stop looking back.

Then she turned toward Munro. Toward the future.

I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

Life is about messing up. And I'm startin' to think it wouldn't be as exciting if we were perfect.

To Health. To Life. To the Future. We are the Key.