Frank Zappa Quotes

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

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

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

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

To innovate is not to reform.

I love challenging the status quo.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.'

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.