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

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

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

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

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.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

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.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

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

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

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.

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.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

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 amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

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

Africa is on the rise.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

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 object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.