Quotes About Progress

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

If you think you've stopped learning, you're going to get lapped.

Development is maintenance.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.