Quotes About Progress

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which his own intelligence must by now have told him belong to the childhood of the race.

Progress doubles our tenure in a vale of tears.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given a A for adultery. Today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

Everything becomes rubbish in the end. We sometimes wonder if people weren't invented as an extra-quick way of making rubbish.

If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars.

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

You can't manage what you can't measure.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

What's measured improves

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Doubt means spiritual relocation is happening. It's God's way of saying, "Time to move on.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

No More Salvation by Society

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.