John Sununu Quotes

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

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

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.

Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

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.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

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.

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

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

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.