The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
I declare that the Russian revolution is a cultural and constructive movement, the only movement capable of saving Russia from political dissolution
Aleksei Maximovitch Peshkov
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
We're not going to let anything get in our way of hitting our milestones and making history and showing the world that Hyperloop works.
