Bill James Quotes

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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

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.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.