Quotes about Progress
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
— Frank Herbert
We are one life reaching out into a dark future.
— Frank Herbert
The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
— Frank Herbert
There's no substitute for time in solving many problems,' Leto said. 'However, you can place too much reliance on it. I can accept no more delays.
— Frank Herbert
IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!
— Frank Herbert
as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath
— Frank Herbert
Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.
— Frank Herbert
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
— William James
The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.
— Max De Pree
I remember having pizza at Shakey's in Vancouver, Washington in 1973 and talking about the fact that eventually, everyone is going to be online and have access to newspapers and stuff, and wouldn't people be willing to pay for information on a computer terminal.
— Paul Allen
I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.
— Mark Cuban