If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Nothing recedes like progress.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

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.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

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.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

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.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.