Quotes About Pioneering

Steve Jobs built on the work of Alan Kay, who built on Doug Engelbart, who built on J. C. R. Licklider and Vannevar Bush.

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

It was hard to comprehend how profoundly the world needed to scratch the Arctic itch.

For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

Byrd at the South Pole

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

History favors the intrepid.

Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon and was closely followed by Buzz Aldrin.

Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.

My progressive record is unmatched.

When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

I knew I wanted to be the Steven Spielberg of dance.