McG Quotes

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

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

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.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

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

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

You have to fight against being an antique.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

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.

If it works, it's obsolete.

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.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.