Quotes About Development

Part of company culture is path-dependent--it's the lessons you learn along the way.

All these developments, naively accepted as "progress", threaten to blunt our aesthetic and spiritual sensitivities and deafen us to the higher call of the contemplative life.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and predictability is not there. It becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies.

[W]e're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1 000 MPG.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

The son becomes the father of the man.

Leaders are made rather than born.

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don't. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.