Quotes About Pioneering

I have always been ahead of my time.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

It was way cool, being the one who did the math.

As a result, the rewards for being first are enormous. It's not a linear scale. It's not a matter of getting a little more after giving a little more. It's a curve, and a steep one.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

Being on 'Raw,' being part of the first-ever women's Royal Rumble match and the first-ever Elimination Chamber was incredibly exciting.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

Once upon a time, I liked to call myself 'The Grandfather of NXT' because I was one of the first to come up as I was, from NXT.

I'm grateful to all the non-risk-takers.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.

It's a pretty cool feeling to be the person to knock down a barrier - just like the Williams sisters did in tennis or Tiger Woods in golf.