Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

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.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

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.

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

We have embraced change - change in the economy, change in the government, and change in the schools…. innovation and change are in our blood

One who uses an ancient rule to govern the present does not necessarily see the changes that have taken place.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common