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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

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

Nothing recedes like progress.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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.

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.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

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

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

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

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

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

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.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

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

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.

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.

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.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

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

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.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

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

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

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

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

The future will be better tomorrow.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

The status quo sucks.

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

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.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

It is my job to help the players react better.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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

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

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

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do 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 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.