Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

It is my job to help the players react better.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

The future will be better tomorrow.

God created man, but I could do better.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

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.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The status quo sucks.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.