Progress quotes

“Progress always comes late.”
Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged.”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge

“- Queen Isabella I.: The New World is a disaster.
- Columbus: And the old one an achievement?”
Sigourney Weaver - Queen Isabel of Castille
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“A reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him. An unreasonable man expects to the world to adapt to him. Therefor all progress is made by unreasonable men.”
P.J. Ochlan - Damon Wells

“- Alice Marshall: I'm 12-years-old, dad. In caveman days I'd be having children of my own.
- President James Marshall: That's what we call progress, young lady.”
Liesel Matthews - Alice Marshall
Harrison Ford - President James Marshall

“Heaven is just a mouse click away.”
Christopher Grace - Pete Monash

“There are those in Washington who believe the West will never be settled, the Northern Pacific Railroad will never breach Nebraska, a hostile Lakota will never submit to providence. And it is that kind of small-minded thinking that who say this horse will never be tamed. Discipline, time, and patience are the three great levelers.”
James Cromwell - The Colonel

“- Alex Wyler: What's it like in the year 2006?
- Kate Forster: Well, I'm afraid the world's pretty much the same. Of course, we all dress in shiny metal jumpsuits and drive flying cars and no one talks anymore because we can read each other's minds... but, the truth is, from the past, not much has really changed in 2006.”
Keanu Reeves - Alex Wyler
Sandra Bullock - Kate Forster

“Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.”
Kurtwood Smith - Federation President

“You're living in the past, Father! This is the 14th century!”
Bill Shirley - Prince Phillip

“We are fucked. Take a look at the world we inherited. We're a bunch of fast-food munching MTV freaks humping the great Amercian Dream. The generation before us sold their innocence for 200 digitally enhanced satellite stations, and it's been downhill ever since. They had Mickey Mouse, Easy Rider and The Beatles. Alright? We got South Park, The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brendan Fehr - Nick

“I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring.”
Joseph Cotten - Eugene Morgan

“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond?”

Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“I wouldn't be afraid of death if I was you. I'd be more afraid of driving in rush hour traffic.”
Jessica Tandy - Ninny Threadgoode

“In the old days, we actually had to tap a wire into your phone line. Now with calls bouncing off satellites, they snatch'em right out of the air.”
Gabriel Byrne - Brill

“The progress has come at a price. The obvious being the people that were exploited to make it possible; the not so obvious being us, the first group of people that were given no obvious frontiers to conquer. We hear stories about the good old days that don't seem to apply anymore. It's a generation gap that leaves us without role models. But the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mark McClain Wilson - Duncan

“Dad, he reckons power lines are a reminder of man's ability to generate electricity.”
Stephen Curry - Dale Kerrigan

“Today, democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with such ideas.”
Henry Daniell - Garbitsch

“The last modern thing I liked was the miniskirt. With technology now, nobody understands it... and that's the simple fact of the situation.”
Henry Jones - Simms

“We're not stuck in the goddamn middle ages here. I mean, we've got TV. We've got Family Feud.”
Chris Penn - Willard

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an "airplane", you know, you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right?

Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

Of all the words my father wrote - and there were many - I remember these the most: "Nothing that results from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. And those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of others".
Billy L. Sullivan - Fernando (aged 10)

“Perhaps you should think less of yourself and more of your group, try to work like in Japanese. I grew up with your soldiers; you were wise then. Now - music and movies are all America is good for. We make the machines, we build the future, we won the peace.”

Ken Takakura - Matsumoto Masahiro

In the old days, if you had to pee, you peed on a tree - with no "may" or "can". That's progress.
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Sam Krichinsky