Quotes About Advancement

I always think today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow is better than today.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

I always try to be better than yesterday.

That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.

It's about being a better player today than you were yesterday.

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.

Myself, I always tell people that if you're not getting better you're only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.

Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and then always build, always go higher.

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on the world.