Adopter Quotes & Sayings

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s. — Charles Stross

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards. — Teju Cole

Believe me, when my 'personal endowments' are being discussed, I always pay attention." ~ Cam Rohan — Lisa Kleypas

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys. — Seth Godin

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter. — Lee Scott

I'm a pretty early adopter of social media. There's a whole subculture to it. I'm smart enough not to tweet things out of emotion. — Jon Favreau

As an early adopter of the internet, I've changed as the internet has changed, and I regret a lot of the things that I used to believe or used to do. — Arthur Chu

It appeared that his sister, usually an irresistible force, had finally met a sufficiently immovable object. — Stephanie Laurens

I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation. — Klaus Schwab

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. — Jessica Brody

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things. — Jonathan Dee

I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise. — Robert Scoble

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology. — Peter Thiel

I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon. — Elizabeth Banks

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.' — Tom Perrotta

I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot. — Jon Hamm

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manner and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a new generalization. Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not about the powers, man; it's that we aren't kids anymore. Look what we've been
through. Look what we've done. Look at yourself, surfer dude. We've done something none of our
parents have even come close to. We didn't take over their boring world; we took over a world about a
thousand times tougher. If we walk out of this alive, we won't have to bow our heads to anyone. — Michael Grant