Quotes About Progress

Obviously we want to succeed. But on some level, success is irrelevant, because the process is inherently satisfying. Waking

We humans co-evolve with our tools. We change the tools, and the tools change us.

Strip malls are a symbol for marginal, low-experience stores that nobody really wants to go to. Over time, say within 10 years, maybe 15 percent of commerce will move online. Will that have a big impact on the physical world? Absolutely. What will that effect be? It will force stores to get better. The ones that don't get better will go by the wayside.

I think the great thing about humans in general is we're always improving things.

There's a tendency, I think, for executives to think that the right course of action is to stick to the knitting--stick with what you're good at. That may be a generally good rule, but the problem is the world changes out from under you if you're not constantly adding to your skill set.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Strip malls are history.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

if you're going to wait to get all the information you think you need before you act, you'll never act because there's an infinite amount of information out there.

Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

To me, this book is sort of like a snakeskin. A snakeskin is something you might find on the side of the road and make something out of—a belt, say, or a hatband. The snake itself heads off doing more snake stuff—getting it on with lady snakes, eating rats, making more snakeskins, et cetera.

As the Dude says, New shit comes to light, and when it does, you'll pick it up again.

I shop at a computer store called, "Your Crap Is Already Obsolete."

Generations are fictions.

The horizon toward which we move always recedes before us. The revolution is never complete. What we see now as solid and eternal may be disintegrating inward from our blind spots. All that signifies progress may in time be turned against us. But redemption is out there for us if we are always in the process of finding love and grace.

Each of us was born in an era when complexity has become the hallmark of our existence.

The infrastructure that holds society in place is based on increasingly sophisticated systems, technology, and complexity.

We've arrived at the point where technology and information come hurtling towards us.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.