Laura Esquivel Quotes

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

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

In a world being transformed by technology, good science is vital to good diplomacy.

Technology has become our culture

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

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.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

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.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.

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

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.