John Callahan Quotes

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.

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

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

Please, join the modern world.

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.'

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.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

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.