Michael Eisner Quotes

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

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.

People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

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.

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

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

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.