“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations ...” — Alfred North Whitehead Quote

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”

“But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.”

“Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”

“The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.”

“Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.”

“Seek simplicity but distrust it.”

“You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it's all kind of devices. So you've got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas... I've been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.”

“No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.”

“I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.”

“It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.”

“A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.”