Incremental Quotes

“Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.”

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

“You don’t have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.”

“You can do almost anything if you are willing to clarify your commitments and make incremental investments over time to achieve them.”

“To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it works at all. Life occurs in moments. You get into college. You propose. You get the job. You get cancer. You get fired. She leaves you...Because I was born in a stable country at a stable time, I falsely extrapolated that change is incremental. But if you zoom out just a little bit, you see that life is soccer, not basketball. It’s revolution, invention, war. It’s big bangs, exploding stars, asteroids killing the dinosaurs. Which means that all the action is in the risk taking, whether I want it to be or not.”

“You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.”

“Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.”

“I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.”

“The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.”