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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all read more
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to read more
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. read more
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train.
Are you going sixty miles an read more
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train.
Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty
miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and read more
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set
to true time.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.
What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
