History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

"The real trouble is that we keep forgetting the lessons of history."
Donald Knuth
J
"We were the first to do it, and I guess we'll always be remembered for that."
Jean Jennings Bartik
"I stand in awe of the immense advancement of mathematical science in the last century."
Ada Lovelace
S
"History teaches us that the future belongs to those who adapt fastest while staying truest to their values."
Shunpei Yamazaki
D
"History teaches us valuable lessons for the future."
Donna Dubinsky
D
"History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes."
Donna Dubinsky
N
"History shows us that change is always possible."
Nolan Bushnell
C
"History is the version of past events that people have agreed to remember."
Carver Mead
C
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Carver Mead
R
"History judges us by the quality of what we leave behind."
Ralph Baer
J
"We didn't realize we were making history. We just thought we were doing our jobs."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"History teaches us that the impossible becomes possible with determination."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"History is written by those who care enough to record it."
Jean Jennings Bartik
N
"History is littered with ideas that seemed impossible until someone did them."
Nolan Bushnell
S
"The history of progress is written by those who dared to be different."
Shunpei Yamazaki
S
"History teaches that change is always possible for those determined enough."
Shunpei Yamazaki
C
"History teaches us that paradigm shifts are always resisted."
Carver Mead
C
"Every innovation builds on the foundations of previous discoveries."
Carver Mead
D
"History teaches us that those who adapt survive and thrive."
Donna Dubinsky
"I wonder if any woman was ever considered as a scientific mind before this time."
Ada Lovelace
G
"The best way to understand the future is to study the past."
Gordon Moore
J
"We calculated our way into history without realizing we were making it."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"The computer age didn't begin with machines; it began with women willing to think like them."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"The computer age was built on the backs of women the world would forget."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"The development of high speed electronic calculating machines was an inevitable event in the history of applied mathematics."
John von Neumann
J
"If you wish to foresee the future of mathematics, you must look at its past."
John von Neumann
J
"To understand the present, we must understand the past; to change the future, we must understand both."
John von Neumann
S
"History repeats itself because we refuse to truly listen to its lessons."
Shunpei Yamazaki
S
"History is the story of human nature repeating its patterns in new costumes."
Shunpei Yamazaki
A
"Memory becomes prophecy. The past is always trying to tell us something."
Andy Grove