Quotes About Progress

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Along the way, I began to develop an understanding about not only the process for making a miniature golf course, but the general process for making anything: how to start with an initial idea, develop preliminary plans, create a first version, try it out, ask other people to try it out, revise plans based on what happens—and keep doing that, over and over. By working on my project, I was gaining experience with the Creative Learning Spiral.

With ploughs we can cultivate, with telescopes we can see, with engines we can travel, far beyond the limits of our unassisted bodies. But tools do more than extend our bodies: they expand our minds. Technology facilitates ideas that might otherwise be inconceivable.

Computer pioneer Alan Kay likes to say that technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Every ending is a new beginning. Your next beginning will be like a child on Santa's lap for the first time.

The Age of Aquarius expunges the righteous establishment.

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

Changes in the valley during the ensuing decades have been dramatic, but whether for better or worse is a matter of debate.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

Surpass today what you were yesterday, go beyond those of poor skill tomorrow, and exceed those who are skillful later.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.

My favorite book is my next one. I'm always hoping to make my next book my best one.

Surrounded by progress, I feel a nagging sense of our species' regression.