Suzan DelBene Quotes

Technology can progress to an entire new generation in the time it takes one legislative committee to issue a report. Regulation of technology confronts us with two radically different time scales.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

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

When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

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

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

Policy doesn't move as quickly as innovation happens.

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

Government is too slow to keep up with the digital environment.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

The technological transformation of society contains within itself the dynamo of its own management, but only if we create laws and regulations to permit the information revolution to wash through our democratic structures.

In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.