Quotes About Impact

Grossman correctly noted that the iPhone did not really invent many new features, it just made these features a lot more usable. "But that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. . . . When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

Quieres pasarte el resto de tu vida vendiendo agua azucarada o quieres una oportunidad para cambiar el mundo?

Adolf Hitler polled highest as the "greatest living person." Albert Einstein was second.

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to the difference personalities make.

You make an invention you think is great, and so you want it to be used by many people as soon as possible.

Build something of value and deliver a service compelling enough that people would just use it.

Queremos que, cuando abras la caja de un iPhone o de un iPad, la experiencia táctil condicione cómo vas a percibir el dispositivo, señaló.

Zhang was at Harvard at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg, and it's interesting to speculate on which of them will end up having the most impact on the world. It's a proxy for the larger question, which future historians will answer, of whether the digital revolution or the life-science revolution will end up being the more important.

We have 100,000 people in the U.S. affected by sickle cell," one senator pointed out. "How are we going to afford that if it's $1 million per patient? That just breaks the bank.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly see to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly seek to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us."

I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.

often think of how so many people have walked into my life for just a few minutes and kicked up some dust, then they're gone away.

WASTING TIME IS a big problem in the world we live in, that's for sure. But it doesn't mean that we necessarily have to know what the goal is for every step we take. Sometimes we do things that are not directly connected and yet are still significant.

discontinuity also allows us to choose the best camera angle for each emotion and story point, which we can edit together for a cumulatively greater impact.

John Quincy Adams was convinced that Polk's election meant the end of the civilized world

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

We can choose not to think about our power and its meaning for ourselves or for others, but we cannot make that power disappear and we cannot prevent decisions taken in the United States from rippling out beyond our borders and shaping the world that others live in and the choices that they make. Nor can we prevent the way that others see and react to our power from shaping the world we live in and affecting the safety and security of Americans at home.

But it is wonderful what mischief may be done by only two words

In order for the postmodern worldview to emerge fully and mature, it needs, among other things, a better sense of history—an idea of what it is the human species has found out about itself in recent centuries, and what effects that discovery has had on us. It is not hard to find some of that in the public record. The postmodern worldview has been a long time in coming. And in recent decades it has been anything but shy about proclaiming its imminent arrival.

In order for the postmodern worldview to emerge fully and mature, it needs, among other things, a better sense of history—an idea of what it is the human species has found out about itself in recent centuries, and what effects that discovery has had on us. It

One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.