Quotes About Progress

After all, you might argue, we are now so sophisticated and technologically advanced, so progressive and enlightened; we have moved well beyond our primitive roots; we are in the process of rewriting our nature. But the truth is in fact the opposite—we have never been more in the thrall of human nature and its destructive potential than now. And by ignoring this fact, we are playing with fire.

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after.

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs; in the game of power there is never time to rest.

circumstances never repeat themselves exactly.

Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timing, the contributions of others

So I went down to their office and I said, "Well, I'll write a column for you." So the first year I didn't get paid anything, but I wrote a little column every month

The past often has elements worth appropriating, qualities that would be foolish to reject out of a need to distinguish yourself.... Making a display of doing things differently from your predecessor can make you seem childish and in fact out of control, unless your actions have a logic of their own.

These steps are: Deep Observation (The Passive Mode), Skills Acquisition (The Practice Mode), and Experimentation (The Active Mode).

In moving toward mastery, you are bringing your mind closer to reality and to life itself. Anything that is alive is in a continual state of change and movement. The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters a phase of decay. You lose your hard-earned creativity and others begin to sense it. This is a power and intelligence that must be continually renewed or it will die.

First and foremost is the existence throughout history and in all cultures of people of high rationality, the types who have made progress possible. They serve as ideals for all of us to aim for.

Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress. Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence. Just keep moving.

I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in the law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives.

There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events.

The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.

The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.

I guess you're familiar with Moore's Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which basically means memory size and processing speed—will double every eighteen months, and costs will halve. Moore's Law has held with amazing consistency since 1965, and it still holds.

I make no claim to be a philosopher, but this much I have observed: that whenever a thing seems at its zenith, you may be sure its destruction has already started.

Wir brauchen eine Kirche, die die Welt bewegt, keine, die sich mit der Welt bewegt

People who succeed in life are rarely reflective. Their gaze is always on the future: that's why they succeed.

We do not need a Church that will move with the world but a Church that will move the world.

a rising than a setting sun."' This potent combination of

THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO PAPER THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL CARRY NO INVENTORY THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE ENTIRELY DIGITAL THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED

something they call the american dream sure we still believe in it i guess an earth man in the tavern said irregardless of the some times night mare facts we always try to double talk our way around and its okay the dreams okay and means whats good could be a damn sight better means every body in the good old u s a should have the chance to get ahead or at least should have three squares a day as for myself i do okay