John Mellencamp Quotes

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

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

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.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

Not everything in the United States is for sale.

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

We must subject the machine—technology—to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

The selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Technology has become our culture

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The technological transformation of society contains within itself the dynamo of its own management, but only if we create laws and regulations to permit the information revolution to wash through our democratic structures.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.