Quotes About Progress

If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.

It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn't matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it.

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.

Over years, the noise level will be brought down, and LIGO will be three times better and see three times farther.

A Ballon d'Or nomination is one of the best things you can achieve as a player but I want to achieve more and more.

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.