241 quotes found
“It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.”
“Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.”
“If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.”
“Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.”
“Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.”
“Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.”
“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”
“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.”
“If it is to be It is up to me.”
“New roads new ruts.”
“Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.”
“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”
“All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
“This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the order of society the order of ideas the very notions of society and culture have changed a...”
“And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.”
“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old seek what they sought.”
“Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.”
“Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.”
“The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.”
