An Wang Quotes

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

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

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

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.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

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.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

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

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

Technology changes nothing.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

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.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

There's no straight line to progress.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.