Quotes About Progress

Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

I used to goof off a lot.

The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war.

We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

People should understand that Google changes every day.

If we think about how long Google spent searching - I think they came around in '98? And, OK, Gmail came in 2004, but it was literally built by one engineer as a 20%-time project. It was probably 10 years before Google started diversifying.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

I'm not worried about Gordon Hayward. I'm not worried about his future or how good a player he is. He's doing everything he can. If he doesn't become the player that he wants to be, then it won't be from a lack of trying.

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

Gosh, I'm so different from what I used to be.

You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

You're born a certain way, but you don't gotta die like that.

You gotta mature, you know.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

I think you gotta go forward with the things you campaigned on.

The first season of a show's always a rollercoaster because nobody knows what they're doing. You gotta rush through the season trying to figure out: What is this show? And who are these characters?

Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made.