William E. Vaughan Quotes

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Take the best that exists and make it better.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.