Jean Houston Quotes

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

This is the age of disruption.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

It's a brave new world.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Tech never comes back the same.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

We do not need more status quo.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.