The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
Elon MuskI 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.
Anne FrankOf the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Nikola TeslaI definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.
Lando NorrisThose outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.
Billy GrahamMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BonoThrough every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
Barack ObamaFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoNever marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo MachiavelliToday we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
Richard P. FeynmanThe world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
HeraclitusOf all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
Steve JobsIt’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt DisneyMen 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.
Harry S. TrumanA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund BurkeCreativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamFirst comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon HillIf you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Dolly PartonThe space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
Elon MuskI don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
Keanu ReevesLife is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthurThere’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Elon MuskThere is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
Bill GatesObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusWhen we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.
Joyce MeyerI change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
Bob DylanI’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
Maya AngelouWhatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAmerica has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. KennedyWe are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond TutuOne change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolo MachiavelliAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. WashingtonEvolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
Terry PratchettThe vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff BezosIf you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William JamesNature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John MuirThe great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
Friedrich NietzscheWe are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David ThoreauIf 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.
Brian EnoBecause, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Jeff BezosThe charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous HuxleyIn a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin DisraeliImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinWe 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.
Richard BransonPeople will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.
Jeff BezosThe world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert HubbardShould you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren BuffettWe could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.
Elon MuskBefore I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.
Jim CarreyGoals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian TracyYou can’t do something forever.
Bob DylanWe always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren BuffettIf anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
Elon MuskWe’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
Ruth Bader GinsburgScience in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand RussellI believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Bill GatesI’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.
Elon Musk