Tom Stoppard Quotes

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Tech never comes back the same.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

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 ….

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.

No particular technology lasts for long.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

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.

If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?