Charlie Brooker Quotes

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

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.

People have to evolve.

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

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.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

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

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.

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.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

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

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

Everyone has changed, haven't they? Everyone tries to get better; everyone tries to grow.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.

The world is evolving.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

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

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.