Mark Steyn Quotes

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

No particular technology lasts for long.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

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.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

Some guy invents the bow and arrow and he’s ahead for a little while until some guy invents the shield that catches all the arrows.

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.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

You either innovate or you become defunct.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

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.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

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

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

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.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

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.