quotes about Acceleration

“But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.”

“Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.”

“It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.”

“Not all shabby is chic, just like not every ***** actor is a star.”

“In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!”

“The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.”

“We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.”

“The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.”

“Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”

Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

“Basic scientific research is scientific capital.”

Source : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.2