Pierre Schaeffer Quotes

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

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.

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

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

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

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.