Heather Brooke Quotes

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

Please, join the modern world.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

This is the age of disruption.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

The old way of coming up in the game is over.