Showing posts with label Progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Progress. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 March 2009

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

We Are Change

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”

Barack Obama

The Way Things Are

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”

Bertolt Brecht, German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

No Fooling Nature

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

Richard Feynman, US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)

Invent the Future

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

Alan Kay

The Future Is Here

“The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.”

William Gibson, US science fiction novelist in Canada (1948 - )

The Impossible

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

Walt Disney, US cartoonist & movie producer (1901 - 1966)

Disobedience & Progress

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.”

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Limiting Progress

"In other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvements of tomorrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices and errors of today."

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

The Long Journey #2

“Little by little, one travels far“

JRR Tolkein (1892 - 1973)

The Long Journey

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)