Michael Dyson Quotes

Maybe I'm a bit of a Luddite.

I don't see myself as a Luddite.

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

I am the biggest technophobe of all time.

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

I'm such a technophobe.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

I'm a bit of a Luddite.

When it comes to technology and the home, I really don't want to see any of it.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Piety and virtue lie in obedience and conformity, while nothing is more repugnant than change and innovation.

…the burden of proof rests always upon the advocates of change.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

Great innovations should not be forced on a slender majority

America is a conservative country with a small “c” - they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.

I'm not a technophobe, but I'm pretty old fashioned.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.