Ursula Burns Quotes

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.

We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.

The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing, I don't know if I'm going to have to look what's in store for me at that level but fortunately, I broke in earlier.

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.

More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

Technology is the only means through which you touch on new things.

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

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.