Gwynne Shotwell Quotes

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

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.

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.

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.

Everything good needs replacing

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

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

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

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

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

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

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

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

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.

Please, join the modern world.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

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

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.