Quotes About Pioneering

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.

it takes real courage to go where you have not gone before.

with the possible exception of the Fram, the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen, and later by Amundsen.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in 1951, where I worked for a while on radar and guided weapons and later ran a small design laboratory. During this time, I became particularly interested in computers, which were then in their infancy. It was interesting, pioneering work at that time: drums and tape decks had to be designed from scratch.

We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

I launched my website when many in my fraternity had not even heard of the concept. Then I tried my hand at make-up business which has made life simpler for actors.

Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was before we were with a big company.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in my blood.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

Russia will have a woman in space before the United States calls for a crash program for women astronauts.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet. And I think now we're making the first modern smartwatch.

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

Nick Cardy's work helped define some of the things we see in comics today and take for granted. He broke out of the mold in terms of covers and layout and created a truly interactive experience for the reader that directly points back to his time with the Eisner studio.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.