Howard Kurtz Quotes

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

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.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

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.

I love challenging the status quo.

The future is here.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

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.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.