Quotes About Progress

I could not change my past but that I could rebuild a new future by taking just a small step every day in the right direction,

The power of momentum: steady wins the race. The power of completion: clear out your undones and incompletes. The power of reflection: facing the man or woman in the mirror. The power of celebration: catch yourself doing something right.

No success is immediate, no collapse is sudden. They are both the result of the slight edge accruing momentum over time.

Hoping for "the big break"—the breakthrough, the magic bullet—is not only futile, it's dangerous, because it keeps you from taking the actions you need to create the results you want.

The things that create success in the long run don't look like they're having any impact at all in the short run.

The goal of using stories isn't to write better stories. The goal of product development isn't to make products.

scope doesn't creep; understanding grows. And

be prepared for surprises and bad news. In fact, celebrate the bad news, because you could have received the same bad news months later, after you'd built the software.

A sea-level task is one we'd expect to complete before intentionally stopping to do something else.

Focusing on specific target outcomes is the secret to prioritizing development work.

we need to acknowledge that building software isn't the same as working on an assembly line. You're not just building one more widget like the one you built a few minutes ago. Each new story we create software to support is something new.

Scope doesn't creep; understanding grows.

to get something built; rather, it is to learn if we're building

That's religion in America, under constant revision.

Movements are born from the problems of everyday lives, but they are not limited by them.

In the evolution of a town, neighborhood, or community, there comes a point when the decisions of the past, the conditions of the present, and the prospects for the future collide.

the faster a society moves, the more it spreads out and the more time it must spend moving.

all the fancy economic development strategies, such as developing a biomedical cluster, an aerospace cluster, or whatever the current economic development 'flavor of the month' might be, do not hold a candle to the power of a great walkable urban place.

today engineers acknowledge that building

and booths in active, thriving commercial streets all over the world often have a façade length of 16–20 feet, which Ã¢â'¬Â¦ means that there are new activities and sights to see about every five seconds.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." — Albert Einstein "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak "Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity." — Thor Heyerdahl

that's true, then maybe we need to accept the idea that progress isn't such a bad thing, even when there's collateral damage. You shouldn't continue to use outdated methods when a better option exists just to maintain the status quo." "Come on, John Henry, you can't really believe that!" "Do you want technological advancement to remain stagnant? This could be your chance to acquire some new skills.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Maybe it's a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns -- what you want to do, not what you want to be.