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Quotes About Progress

Por qué? ¿Y por qué no tenemos plumaje ni alas, sino solamente omoplatos, las bases para las alas? Porque ya no necesitamos alas: porque tenemos aviones y las alas solamente nos estorbarían.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Why? But why don't we have feathers? Or Wings? Nothing but the shoulder blades where wings would be attached? Why, because we no longer need wings. We've got aeros. Wings would only be in the way. Wings are for flying, but we have nowhere to fly to, we've already flown there, we've found it.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I must note here that even among us the process of the hardening, the crystallization of life has evidently not been completed; there are still some steps to be ascended before we reach the ideal. The ideal (clearly) is the condition where nothing happens any more.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Ai bi?t ???c...Ng??i ta cÅ©ng gi?ng như má»™t cu?n ti?u thuy?t: chưa ??n trang cu?i thì chưa bi?t k?t c?c s? ra sao. B?ng không thì Ä'âu Ä'áng ?? ??c...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Revolutions are infinite.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
What is the matter -a soul? You say a soul? Oh, damn it! We may soon retrogress even to the cholera epidemics.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Well, which final revolution do you want then? There isn't a final one. Revolutions are infinite. Final things are for children because infinity scares children and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night . . .
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
And why then do you think there is a last revolution? There is no last revolution, their number is infinite...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
How can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
~ Yiddish Proverb
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
contemporaries,
~ Yiyun Li
Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development.
~ Yochai Benkler
From the steam engine to the assembly line, from the double-rotary printing press to the communications satellite, the capital constraints on action were such that simply wanting to do something was rarely a sufficient condition to enable one to do it.
~ Yochai Benkler
Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
~ Yogananda
The future ain't what it used to be.
~ Yogi Berra
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
~ Yogi Berra
A failure is only a step on the way to your success.
~ Yogi Bhajan
Life is a book of changes. It should be read only to understand how it works. You can't help the changes in life; they must come whether they are good or bad because the good must follow the bad and the bad must follow the good. T
~ Yogi Bhajan
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
~ Yoko Ono