Adoption Quote by Lisa Su

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle

— Marc Andreessen

Technology is a continuum. It's constantly getting lower-cost and easier to use, and you see that, and that's true with our company.

— Marc Benioff

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

— Mitch Kapor

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is…

— Elon Musk

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

— Adam Gopnik

As the technology matures, it becomes less and less relevant. The technology is taken for granted. Now, new customers enter the marketplace, customers who…

— Donald A. Norman

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

— Hilary Mason

“Technology at its finest is easy to adopt, quick to implement, and bound to be underappreciated.”

— Craig Detweiler

“The reason for the different speeds of adoption is that the key industrial using devices, the light bulb and the electric motor, involved replacing…

— Edward A. Hudson

The reality is technology is here, technology will only improve and certain technology companies will dominate in the next five to ten years, ...…

— George Rodrigue

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

— Walt Mossberg