Igor Stravinsky Quotes

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.