Quotes About Development

The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

you can advance only by more than filling your present place.

High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it. ~She's Come Undone

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things from Leaves of Grass

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

Not architecture alone but all technology is, at certain stages, evidence of a collective dream.

progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps.

You always have to keep pushing to innovate.

In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. 

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.

There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on.

progress, the concept that individuals, and humanity in general, move forward and improve based on a steady increase of knowledge and the wisdom that comes from conquering adversity.

Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground.

People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.

Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.

La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendrá de lo bien que se enseñe en sus escuelas la multiplicación y las tablas periódicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginación y la creatividad.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year

Si Von Neumann y su equipo hubieran seguido liderando las innovaciones y las hubiesen hecho de dominio público, ¿habría conducido ese modelo de desarrollo de código abierto a un progreso más rápido de los ordenadores?

Innovation happens in stages.

the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?

Ethernet, the technologies developed by Bob Metcalfe

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?" he asked. "If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education, one would obtain the adult brain.