William McDonough Quotes

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

With every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem.

You have to go with the times. You're going to get left behind if you don't.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

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

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

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.

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.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.