Quotes About Progress

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

If you've got a plan, it's not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

I have never decided on how to plan my career moves.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because you need to make constant decisions.

A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.

Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth.

The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

We were re-engineering the entire business and at the same time having accelerated growth. That's like changing the engine while the plane is in the air.

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.

We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space.