Quotes About Progress

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

My final slide quoted the words of biologist Louis Agassiz: 'Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

anyone can download and use the code, and new projects migrate from the edges to the center as a

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr

We need to start seeing Moore's Law apply to healthcare," I said. "What's Moore's Law?" the senator asked. "You have to understand, Senator," Reid interjected, "that in Washington, you assume that every year things cost more and do less. In Silicon Valley, everyone expects our products to cost less every year but do more.

be released under an open source license.) The open source dictum, "release early and release often" in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, "the perpetual beta," in which the

John Gall wrote, "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over beginning with a working simple system.

Muitas vezes, quando uma nova tecnologia é implementada pela primeira vez, ela amplifica as piores características da antiga forma de fazer negócios. Só gradualmente é que os indivíduos e as organizações percebem, através de uma rede de inovações em cascata, como aplicar a nova tecnologia de forma adequada.

example of such an application, although it hasn't yet gained wide traction. Nor will the Web 2.0 revolution be limited to PC applications. Salesforce.com demonstrates

Life presents itself first and foremost as a task. We take no pleasure in it except when we are striving after something.

Nothing is more obsolete than yesterday's vision of the future.

More than one person has claimed that the whole history of Italy as a nation-state could be reconstructed through an account of the country's railways.

He had detailed plans for developing industry, using hydro-electric power – 'the white coal of Ireland'.

He wanted to avoid both State socialism which he saw as merely another form of monopoly, and industrial development along 'the old commercial capitalistic lines of the huge joint stock companies':

the question of labour in relation to industry, and it is consequently vitally necessary for the development of our resources that the position of employers and employees should rest on the best possible foundation.

I should have got the chance which I felt would put us over and we might have crossed the bar in my opinion at high tide.

Can we do better?

What you are to be, you are now becoming. —RUSSEL LESTER SNYDER, artist

Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what's next. And then you go for even more.

I don't care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are—you can improve, and you will. Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, "Done," your instincts say, "Next.

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear.

Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better.

Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you're willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it.