Progress Quotes

Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

Without death there would be very little progress.

Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

There has to be a global mission of human progress.