A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Things do not change; we change.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I was raised to be independent.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.