Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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.

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

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

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

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

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

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

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.