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It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

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.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

A lot of people forget that anything is accomplishable if you embrace technology.

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

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

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

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.

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

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

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.