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Progress

 A lot of what appears to be progress is just technological rococo. 
Anonymous
 All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. 
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
 Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself. 
Frank Capra (1897-1991)
 Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. 
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
 Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules—and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. 
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
 Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it. 
Anonymous
 Is it progress when a cannibal uses a knife and fork? 
Czy jeżeli ludożerca je widelcem i nożem to postęp?
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909-1966)
 It is better for civilisation to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. 
Anonymous
 Men have become tools of their tools. 
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
 Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to modern people who blow horns to break up traffic jams. 
Anonymous
 Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. 
E.B. White (1899-1985)
 Progress may have been acceptable once but it has gone on too long. 
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
 Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
 The impossibility of yesterday has become the luxury of today and the necessity of tomorrow. 
Anonymous
 What is now proved was once only imagined. 
William Blake (1752-1827)
 What was sliced bread the greatest thing since? 
Anonymous
 You are making progress if each mistake is a new one. 
Anonymous
 You are not in traffic; you are traffic. 
Anonymous
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