Mason Cooley Quotes

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

We're always thinking of different things to be on the cutting edge of what's entertaining or what's hot on Twitter or social media or even society in general. I've had little goals here and there. But that's the main goal. Always changing, always be prepared to adapt.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

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.

Change brings opportunity.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.