Quotes About Progress

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

No desperdicies el recuerdo del camino recorrido. Ello no retrasa vuestra carrera, sino que la dirige; el que olvida el punto de partida, pierde fácilmente la meta.

I don't know what I want sometimes, But I know that I want to know what I want. I know that once I know what I want I will be able to get it. Of course, I may not want what I get when I get it... But, at least I'll know I don't want that! Then, I can move on to something else I don't know if I want. That's progress!

Evolution is cut-and-try.

Once you've mastered your thoughts, you'll be glad of this power," he said gently. "I wish they would bring back the old world," she said. "It was a cruel world," he answered. "We're well off without it.

Robotics is never yet got to where live brains can be altogether replaced, except in bureaucrats.

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave way to cool, rationalistic classicism. Today that's being drowned in turn by a kind of neoromanticism. God knows where that will lead. I probably won't approve. Regardless, new generations grow up. We've no right to freeze them into our own mold. The universe is too wide.

If nothing else, we today need a reminder that we must never take civilization for granted. I

They talked business for half an hour. (Centuries passed beyond the hull.)

we can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens!

Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.

Process not coming right means , we are not doing some thing RIGHT.

MAN "behaving" like ROBOTS and ROBOTS "evolving" like MAN.............we are fast reaching the point of convergence of the two.

Kita semua harus menerima kenyataan, tapi menerima kenyataan saja adalah pekerjaan manusia yang tak mampu lagi berkembang. Karena manusia juga bisa membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru. Kalau tak ada orang mau membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru, maka "kemajuan" sebagai kata dan makna sepatutnya dihapuskan dari kamus umat manusia.

Menulislah sedari SD, apa pun yang ditulis sedari SD pasti jadi.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Berbahagialah dia yang makan dari keringatnya sendiri bersuka karena usahanya sendiri dan maju karena pengalamannya sendiri.

Orang bilang, apa yang ada di depan manusia hanya jarak. Dan batasnya adalah ufuk. Begitu jarak ditempuh sang ufuk menjauh.

Dan bukankan satu ciri manusia modern adalah juga kemenangan individu atas lingkungannya dengan prestasi individual? Individu-individu kuat sepatutnya bergabung mengangkat sebangsanya yang lemah, memberinya lampu pada yang kegelapan dan memberi mata pada yang buta

Semua yang baik datang berduyun-duyun. Hanya karena aku sudah memulai. Yang lain-lain akan datang dengan sendirinya. Semua membutuhkan permulaan. Permulaan sudah ditempuh.

I've often heard people say, "Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise." When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?

Perdagangan membikin orang terbebas dari pangkat-pangkat, tak membeda-bedakan sesama manusia, apakah dia pembesar atau bawahan, bahkan budak pun. Pedagang berpikiran cepat. Mereka menghidupkan yang beku dan menggiatkan yang lumpuh

Letakkan cambukmu, raja, kau yang tak tahu bagaimana ilmu dan pengetahuan telah membuka babak baru di bumi manusia ini.