Quotes About Adaptation

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

I don't believe [Africa] is ready to shift - and she needs to shift. So she needs to get the technology and she can only get that technology from the developed world.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Technology alone is not enough.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.