Hugh Grant Quotes

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

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

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

When there is change, there are always sceptics who think it won't work. I am sure someone at some point thought the iPhone wouldn't take off.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

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

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

I don't like change that much.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.