Amy Heckerling Quotes

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

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.

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

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.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

When there is change, there are always sceptics who think it won't work. I am sure someone at some point thought the iPhone wouldn't take off.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

I think people don't really like change.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

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

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

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

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

You shouldn't fight change. You should be absolutely open to change.

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