Quotes About Progress

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

I always thought I would probably be a high school coach and a principal and then a superintendent. Then it got way off track and it got into college.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

Print is not dead.

We don't know where print is going.

I started small with commercials and print.

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, 'Get out of my way, I want at this thing.' They immediately start getting creative.

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.