Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

To innovate is not to reform.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

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.

If it works, it's out of date.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

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.

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

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.

There's major changes happening with technology and economics. But unfortunately, the initial reaction on any new frontier, it gets bloody, and people are overreacting, and very defensive, and they're not taking risks. In fact, they're taking such safe measures that they're shooting themselves in the foot.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.