Heather Donahue Quotes

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

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

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

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

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

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.

I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to shrink. You'll be able to communicate with fewer people, especially the young. You will only see reruns. You will not understand how to pay for things. The outside world will become a frightening and unpredictable place.

Change is not threatening.

People need islands of stability during periods of rapid change.

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

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

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.