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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.