Nick Nurse Quotes

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.

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

In the years that I've been in this business, a lot of things have changed in a major way. In all aspects.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

Without death there would be very little progress.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

I am a big believer that change is good.

The future for us is not to go bigger but to go different.

It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

It is the time to move ahead and bring the change

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.