Quotes About Progress

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

innovation thrives when rules are clear.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

Human knowledge progresses when people recognize that they may be wrong even on issues that seem certain to them. Wisdom involves openness to those who disagree with us. It is only when our ideas have been subjected to criticism and all objections considered—if necessary seeking these objections out—that we have any right to think of our judgement as better than another's.

Free speech does indeed cause hurt—but there is nothing wrong in this. Knowledge advances through the destruction of bad ideas. Mockery

There is no finish line.

Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them.

Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.