Elliott Gould Quotes

Youth is wasted on the young.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

Adults are obsolete children.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

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

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.