Michael K. Powell Quotes

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

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.

We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

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

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.