Acceleration Quote by Karel Capek

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better…

— Karl Kraus

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

— Pablo Casals

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in…

— Samuel Smiles

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set…

— George Santayana

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

— Robert A. Heinlein

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

— Pico Iyer

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

— Jaan Tallinn

Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of…

— Carl Honore

“Activity without advancement is just motion- and motion burns money, time, and morale.”

— Shamail Aijaz

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a…

— Stephen Hawking

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest…

— Louis O. Kelso

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set…

— George Santayana