T Bone Burnett Quotes

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

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

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

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

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

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 don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

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

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

No particular technology lasts for long.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

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.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

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.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.