Oscar Wilde Quotes

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

I think time has changed everything. Not only music but our surroundings, technology, fashion - everything has changed with time, and it will keep changing every day.

Revolutions never go backward.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.