Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat.
THEODORE “TEDDY” ROOSEVELT 26th President of the United States,
1906 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and “Rough Rider”
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They have a way of sneaking up on us.
BIG THINGS
For instance...
Do you realize that when Seinfeld went off the air in 1998, Google had not even been invented yet?
Over 1.4 billion people visit YouTube each month and they watch billions of hours of video.
The domain www.youtube.com was first registered on February 14, 2005.
The most profitable company in the history of the world…
…has been surpassed by a technology company.
That smartphone in your pocket is more powerful than every computer at NASA when we went to the moon…
COMBINED.
And there are now more than one billion people with smartphones in their pockets.
That’s a lot of NASAs.
BIG THINGSThey have a way of changing the world.
Look around you… It is easy to take the world we’ve built for granted.
200 years ago, industrial machines transformed every aspect of our world.
Over the past 40 years, computers transformed everything again.
And in the process created a lot of very, very wealthy people.
It’s easy to think we have technologically ARRIVED.
It's even easier to forget we have only JUST BEGUN.