Pierre Boulez Quotes

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

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

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

Innovation means change.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

The world is evolving, and we must evolve with it.