James Cleverly Quotes

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

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

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

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.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

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

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

We can go into no mechanic shop, into no manufactory of any description, upon no farm or plantation, or travel a mile on our railroads or in our steamboats, without seeing evidence of our originality and witnessing the fruits of our ingenuity and enterprise.