Quotes About Progress

The other day, in the course of one of those more or less clandestine visits to the city on the Clyde I make from time to time, I was walking down Buchanan Street when I came smack up against something I'd never seen before: that sculpture of a big bird struggling into flight called Concept of Kentigern. Maybe Glasgow is about ready to leave its status as industrial mastadon of the Western world and fly over into other dimensions. Maybe there's a good time coming.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

Change is not necessarily slow. A team eager or desperate for improvement can progress quickly. It doesn't need to wait long to assimilate one change before moving on to the next practice. If you change too fast, though, you risk slipping back into old practices and values. When this happens, take time to regroup. Remind yourself of the values you want to hold. Review your practices and remind yourself why you chose them. New habits take time to solidify.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer

Are the teeny-tiny steps feeling restrictive? Take bigger steps. Are you feeling a little unsure? Take smaller steps. TDD is a steering process -- a little this way, a little that way.

Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

The XP philosophy is to start where you are now and move towards the ideal. From where you are now, could you improve a little bit?

No matter the circumstance you can always improve. You can always start improving with yourself. You can always start improving today.

Incremental design—We invest in the design every day, but we have the additional constraint that we need to keep our APIs stable.

that the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children." — Sitting Bull I

I am an Indian; and while I have learned much from civilization, for which I am grateful, I have never lost my Indian sense of right and justice. I am for development and progress along social and spiritual lines, rather than those of commerce, nationalism, or efficiency. Nevertheless, so long as I live, I am an American.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Imagination it is which builds bridges, and cities, and empires. The beasts know it not ... while to one in a hundred thousand of earth's dominant race it is given as a gift from heaven that man may not perish from the earth.

When you stop growing you start dying.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.