"Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"