Tom Stoppard Quotes

It's a brave new world.

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

This is the age of disruption.

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

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.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

To innovate is not to reform.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

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.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

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

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

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

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

The old way of coming up in the game is over.