Quotes About Progress

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

lineage is only the normal marker of passing time.

The stereotype of the bourgeois couple to which the motif of the ages of life corresponds becomes a well-oiled machine: each generation pushes the next one toward the exit.

After all, the better the developers you have, the better the product you build.

Later, as we neared the $1 billion in revenue mark, we didn't focus on $1 billion in revenue, but what we needed to do to get to $10 billion in revenue.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Don't be afraid to ask for help or advice. You'll catch up soon enough.

losses are necessary because we grow by losing and leaving and letting go."6

I learned very quickly since then that the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.