Quotes About Pioneering

The Alto was certainly not the first personal computer; that honor has to go to Wes Clark's LINC, if not to Clark's TX-0, or even to Jay Forrester's Whirlwind. But it was the first machine that most of us would recognize as a personal computer.

PARC had given them something magical: an Alto-Ethernet—laser printer—GUI system that was like nothing else on the planet.

On the frontier," he had written in 1965, "man must often chart his course by stars he has never seen. Rarely does one recognize or discover a complex problem, formulate it, and lay out a procedure that will solve it—all in one great flash of insight.

There had never before been a machine that was this much in front of the competition. And never since. It was a singular event.

Name one hero who was happy - You can't." "I can't." "I know. They never let you become famous and happy - I'll tell you a secret." "Tell me." "I'm going to be the first.

Scat Man Doo and his trusty Shit Stick had gone where no man had ever gone before. And none should ever go again.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

Every great man was thought to be insane before he changed the world. Some never changed the world. They were just insane.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. Take every risk to explore new ideas and be authentic yet absolutely creative.

I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it.

When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.

Brower had pioneered the route up the most impressive of them, Shiprock in New Mexico); the amphitheater basins ringed

I was first in my family to go to college.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.... Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.

Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.

Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity.

We believe that economic progress comes from the inventiveness, ability, determination and the pioneering spirit of extraordinary men and women. If they cannot exercise that spirit here, they will go away to another free enterprise country which will then make more economic progress than we do.

If you walk in the footprints of others, you wont make any of your own.