Quotes About Progress

We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.

There's nothing wrong with being wrong.

When we start to look at struggle as an opportunity to grow, we start to walk in the midst of struggle with a smile on our face. If you can do this, you are becoming awakened.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

I've said it before and I'm going to say it here again, now. Nothing brilliant has ever resulted from a meeting.

Make no mistake, Concorde was an extraordinary technological achievement. Almost certainly, one of the greatest.

The common good is the aspiration of all of us.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

In 1957, IBM's weight was two-thirds of the technology sector; in 2013, IBM was only the third largest in a sector that contains 70 firms.

Africa remains a small part of the world economy until 2070, when it begins to expand rapidly, reaching 14 percent, the same size as the economy of China, by the end of the century.

Everything that's organized is racing toward being disorganized. It's nature's highest law.

How else can one explain the survival of so much that is so utterly pointless – barristers' wigs, bearskins, an unelected House of Lords, flummeries from the Trooping the Colour to Swan-upping, or archaic-sounding offices of state like Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Warden of the Cinque Ports? In the end, it gets to everyone: those who start their adulthood in passionate argument for modernization end up dreaming of a seat in the House of Lords.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.

But what if I were to say to you that 25 years from now, the bulk of the energy you use to heat your home and run your appliances, power your business, drive your vehicle, and operate every part of the global economy will likewise be nearly free? That's already the case for several million early adopters

The capitalist era is passing . . . not quickly, but inevitably.

consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857, that same trip by rail would have taken 72 hours.12

Don't worry. These cowboys are all in line. Nice, law-abiding batch here, only want to help you reach your dreams. They're nothing like that last group who rolled through town with branding irons and rape-trusses and shotguns. These are the good guys.

With the inexorable slowness of a tortoise orgasm

It made me feel that bad things could happen but they didn't have to stay bad. Sometimes they could get better, with a bit of help.

I had to decide in the next few seconds: Would I let my past keep screwing up my present and my future?

But it was time to stop forgetting the world–and time to start changing it.