"Acorns were good until bread was found." - Francis Bacon


"If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction." - Arthur Bloch


"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself." - William Ellery Channing


"Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve." - Charles Caleb Colton


"Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections." - Thomas Fuller


"The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state." - John Ousterhout


"Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them." - Will Rogers


"As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it." - George Bernard Shaw


"Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next." - Charles Simmons