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" Progress is often driven not by the accumulation of small steps, but by dramatic leaps. The television wasn’t an iteration of a previous device, it was a new technology altogether. Einstein’s general theory of relativity didn’t tinker with Newton’s law of universal gravitation, it replaced it in almost every detail. "

Matthew Syed , Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do


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Matthew Syed quote : Progress is often driven not by the accumulation of small steps, but by dramatic leaps. The television wasn’t an iteration of a previous device, it was a new technology altogether. Einstein’s general theory of relativity didn’t tinker with Newton’s law of universal gravitation, it replaced it in almost every detail.