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Quotes About Progress

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
~ Henry David Thoreau
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
~ Felix Dennis
Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.
~ William Watson
People must get respect for their new ideas.
~ John Kao
The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.
~ Thorsten Heins
If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.
~ Julian Fellowes
The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.
~ Jonathan Coulton
Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.
~ Tim McGraw
I know the world is flat now, I'm not going back.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Landline
You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain
~ Boonaa Mohammed
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
~ T. H. White
Because change will come as it will, and there's nothing we can do to prevent it. In fact, try to stop it and you trip over the turning wheels.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.
~ yates brock
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.
~ yates brock
If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.
~ yates brock
to choose your partner so that you can continue working is a lot more constructive that giving one up.
~ Yayoi Ogawa
Healing is a choice. It's not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.
~ Yehuda Berg
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin