Limited Progress Quotes

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We have been underserved, underprivileged and unfortunate for far too long. There are no more excuses. It's not enough to have limited progress and allow our expectations and sense of purpose to evaporate. So, if that means we must sacrifice some nights at the club and give up buying the latest designer handbags and sneakers... well then damn, so be it.

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

Academicians get nowhere.

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

I've spent my life at public work, and I've spent many a day on a good cause that didn't have any lift, didn't have enough support, didn't have enough resources, and you could only get so far.