Dave Matthews Quotes

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

Reform can only move forward. It cannot stagnate. Even more so, it can’t move backward.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.