Owen Barfield Quotes

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

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.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.

Life itself is exponential.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

No particular technology lasts for long.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

Sometimes you got to mess stuff up to get change going.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

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

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

Everything is so unstable in these times of progress at any cost, and social customs and methods of life alter so rapidly, that a few years now suffice to change completely the face of usages which, at their inception, bade fair to outlive the age - so enthusiastically were they welcomed by the public.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation - I have done it myself.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.