Frances Arnold Quotes

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

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.

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.

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

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

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

Innovation means change.

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

The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.

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

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.