Walter Russell Mead Quotes

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.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

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

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

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Please, join the modern world.

We live in a scientific revolution. In such an epoch of revolutionary change, those who identity laissez-faire with liberty are enemies, however unwitting, of democracy

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

This is the age of disruption.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

The Internet free marketplace is defined by fierce competition. And that competition has transformed the world with innovation, investment, and what we need most of all right now: jobs.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.