Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

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.

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

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

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

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.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

Everything good needs replacing

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

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

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

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

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

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

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.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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

Tech never comes back the same.