Clayton Christensen Quotes

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

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

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.

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.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

Some people think technology has the answers.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

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

... 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.

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.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

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

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

A lot of people forget that anything is accomplishable if you embrace technology.

We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

I believe engineers will save the world.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.