Victor Borge Quotes

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

In the years that I've been in this business, a lot of things have changed in a major way. In all aspects.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part of a cycle where people are discovering more. The communications are better. We're getting more into the subtle electricities that control the universe.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.

Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.