Innovation Fear Quotes

Turn a Christian society into an established church and it is no longer a voluntary assembly for the worship of God; it is a powerful corporation full of such sentiments and passions as usually distinguish these bodies: a dread of innovation, an attachment to abuses, a propensity to tyranny and oppression.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

I really felt like it was a dangerous trap to get into, having had such great success with 'Wishes,' it just wasn't in my blood not to play it safe and just do that again.

There is a fear of innovation because people are afraid of job loss.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.