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.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

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.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Time is bunk.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

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

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.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

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.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.