Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

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

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.

No particular technology lasts for long.

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

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

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.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

There's just always going to be both positives and negatives to any evolution that we're a part of. And there's really no stopping the evolution of technology. There has been more and more integration in our daily lives, so we become more and more dependent on it.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.

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 pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.