Steve Jobs Quotes

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

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.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

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

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

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

No particular technology lasts for long.

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.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

You either innovate or you become defunct.

Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products.

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

Without death there would be very little progress.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

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.