Quotes About Progress

My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.

There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.

As long as I don't have to go back to the catering hall and wait tables anymore, I'm very happy.

If you look at where the growth is happening - tablet growth compared to the traditional PC growth - you just can't compare them.

We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet. And I think now we're making the first modern smartwatch.

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Maybe thermoelectricity will be able to power a tablet someday.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.

I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.

I'm so proud of the community we've been able to bring together, and the notion of women making the first move is no longer taboo; it's no longer a scarlet letter to have a voice.

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

My vision is to make India into a 100% sanitary-pad-using country. Menstruation is no more a taboo.

I love the fact we do break taboos.

We've been going through a massive thought evolution and many taboos have been broken.

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.