Quotes About Pioneering

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

Virginia has no shortage of pioneering women who have made history by overcoming doubt and discrimination, by daring to step into roles that had never been held by a woman, and by breaking down barriers for those who would follow.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

General Sheryl Gordon is a trailblazer and visionary leader.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." —Donald M. Nelson

I never considered myself a leader but I was never afraid to take the first step.

The first time is always the hardest

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

Be first and be lonely.

I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

on D. W. Griffith] There is not a man working in movies, or a man who cares for them, who does not owe Griffith more than he owes anybody else.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

Florence Nightingale's greatest achievement was her ability to link infection to unclean environs despite the absence of the germ theory. Nightingale's patients were also around a hundred years too early to benefit from the advent of antibiotics.

Lynn Thorndike

Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science,

Hopper would later gain fame both as a teacher and as a pioneer in the development of high-level programming languages. Yet perhaps her best-known contribution came in the summer of 1945, when she and her colleagues were tracking down a glitch in the Mark II and discovered a large moth that had gotten crushed by one of the relay switches and shorted it out. She taped the dead moth into the logbook with the notation "First case of an actual bug being found.

first personal computer—that was the LINC of Wes Clark

the IBM 650, as it came to be called, would eventually become known as the Model T of the computer industry, the first mass-market computer.