Sebastian Thrun Quotes

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

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

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.

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

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

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

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

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

To innovate is not to reform.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

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.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

I love challenging the status quo.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.