Progress

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The growing technical prowess of nations such as India unnerves some people... who fear a loss of jobs and opportunities. I think these fears are misplaced. Economics is not a zero-sum game.

New York Times Syndicate (April 8, 1997)
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us
Progress, that great heresy of degenerates
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress
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