Steve Jobs Quotes

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.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

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

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

No particular technology lasts for long.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

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.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

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.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Unsurprisingly, the most vocal opponents of new technologies are those who dominated the old.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

A society without civil, political, and property rights may indeed find it difficult to innovate innovation outside the military sector, but it often has a relatively easy time adopting technologies that have already been developed elsewhere.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.