Slow Adoption Quotes

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. This form of stupidity is confined to no community, to no nation; it is universal. The fat is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas—but sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all.

The fact is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas--it sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

Opinions, when merely true, move slowly; but when approved, acquire proclivity.

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. I love my gay family. I just wish I could reach more of them. I'm in this car going from club to club but they're not gay clubs.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

I was the last person to get high-speed Internet, I was the last person to get an iPod, the last person to get an iPhone... I travel to India for one month out of the year and I don't have a phone there, so I can go without, which is beautiful, too.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

I'm not a technophobe, but I'm pretty old fashioned.