Aaron Levie Quotes

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

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

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.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

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.

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

This is the age of disruption.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

I've been in sport for 15 years now and I'm actually shocked at the changes. We had all these things, but we couldn't utilize them. They were not accessible to us. They're actually accessible right now.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

We do not need more status quo.

As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.

When there is change, there are always sceptics who think it won't work. I am sure someone at some point thought the iPhone wouldn't take off.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

The people of California really like innovation.