Geoff Mulgan Quotes

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

Innovation means change.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

Sciences evolve.

I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.

The world is evolving.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.