obsolete swiftly when cheap vinyl siding hit the market in the 1950s

 

From Model T to rocket ships within one generation

 

progress will eventually outpace the progressive

 

trouble-free

Papyrus depicting Cleopatra VII sitting on her throne

Relatively little changed for 3000 years in Ancient Egypt [3100 BCE-30 BCE] e.g. the wheel was adopted late and was not used in the construction of the pyramids. Secondary sources claim it was a time of relative happiness.

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

"I may walk slowly, but I never walk backward."
- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]

on progress

"You need to be comfortable being uncomfortable."
- Ginni Rometty, Chairman & CEO IBM, which has more revenues than Apple but less Market Cap

automation and technology

"100 years ago farmers constituted 40% of the work force, but now it's just 2% and production is higher. This is a global trend across all industries."
- American Enterprise Institute

sounds reasonable

"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."

- George Bernard Shaw

"I'm my own worst critic. It helps keep you searching and trying to expand and to grow and not settling into something that's familiar and something that I think ultimately creates stasis. I want to keep moving and keep learning. And not to know everything."
- Michael Stipe 

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