Quotes About Advancement

My goal every year is I always want to be better than the year before.

Everyone evolves during the year.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Can you say that in 20 years people would still use the iPhone? Maybe not. Maybe we'd have a new product or something more innovative. What I can say today is that, in 20 years, I'm quite convinced that people will still drink Dom Perignon.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes.

By year three, you get nicer, bigger trailers.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.

Absolutely everything I've done - my research, my training, my book - was made possible due to Harvard opening doors and providing me with connections.

Football hasn't got better, it has just evolved, from the ball to the boots to the shirts to the training methods - everything around them.

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found. That same year, other researchers observed the first 'transit' of an exoplanet - a planet blocking out a small fraction of the starlight as it passes in front of the star.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.