M. Shadows Quotes

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

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

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

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

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.

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 standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

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

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

The world is evolving, and we must evolve with it.

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

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

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

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.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.