John Ashcroft Quotes

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

The world is evolving.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Every 10 years the game changes.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Everything is going to change.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.