Andy Rooney Quotes

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

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.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

Technology can progress to an entire new generation in the time it takes one legislative committee to issue a report. Regulation of technology confronts us with two radically different time scales.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.

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.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.