Quotes About Progress

Paul Valéry pointed up in this sentence: Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, while the truly new is criticized with aversion.

L'expérience de notre génération: le capitalisme ne mourra pas de mort naturelle

A historical materialist cannot do without the notion of a present which is not a transition, but in which time stands still and has come to a stop. For this notion defines the present in which he himself is writing history.

Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

I have to burn the bridges to eternity

Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of ere, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward.

for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 1930

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will, he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.' Come help me celebrate mine.

In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.

You always have to keep pushing to innovate.

In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. 

Innovation requires articulation.

We kind of missed the boat on that, he recalled. So we needed to catch up real fast. The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind.

progress, the concept that individuals, and humanity in general, move forward and improve based on a steady increase of knowledge and the wisdom that comes from conquering adversity.

I remember him telling me that engineering was the highest level of importance you could reach in the world," Steve Wozniak later recalled. "It takes society to a new level.

The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.

There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.