1,930 Quotes About Progress

The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed.

We can take the revolutionary leap from democracy to meritocracy right now - dissolve the government and all political offices, and keep the departments that actually run a nation anyways.

We cannot create a truly democratic society till we create a stateless society.

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Progress occurs where truths are questioned.

The underprivileged are byproduct of society’s material progress.

FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

You have become more and therefore expect more, but never become too purpose-driven to step back and realize just how far you have progressed.

Like characters in Greek tragedy, we seem fated to push technology towards its ultimate degree as if we were possessed by malignant gods. We call these gods "curiosity" and "creativity" and "reason" and "progress", but when these words are perverted by technocrats, they are more like the four horsemen of the apocalypse.