Rate of Change Quotes

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning is a must, and it is up to governments and employers to invest in training and for employees to commit to constantly update their skill set.

Things happen slower than you think that they will, but when they do occur, they happen much faster than you think they will.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

Because human nature evolved in an era before collective learning accelerated, we are all fitted to living in a world that does not change much after our formative years.

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.