Hyman Rickover Quotes

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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

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

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

Don't be content with things as they are.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

Please, join the modern world.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

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

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.