A Quote by Douglas Coupland

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

Douglas Coupland

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Backward Computer Connectedness Go Never Same Slower State Way

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

J. I. Packer

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Leryn Franco

Revolutions never go backward.

William H. Seward

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

Sandra Bullock

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

Belva Ann Lockwood

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Charles Simmons

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Dalai Lama

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

Soren Kierkegaard

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

Karen Marie Moning

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

J. K. Rowling

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

Elizabeth Chase Allen

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.