Quotes About Progress

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

Innovation is hard to schedule.