Rapid Change Quotes

The Nation trembled on the brink. Events moved with such speed that it was necessary to decide to act on the instant, as each successive crisis arose.

People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

People always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable’ things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Innovation accelerates and compounds.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

A million years went by quick.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

We are rapidly—I was about to say, fearfully—growing.