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Quotes About Innovation

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
~ Jacque Fresco
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
~ Mark Weiser
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
~ Steve Jobs
You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.
~ James Mattis
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
~ Robert Kahn
Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
~ Manmohan Singh
Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.
~ Gerald J. Popek
I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.
~ Dwayne Johnson
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
~ Edward Teller
We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.
~ Ayah Bdeir
Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.
~ Lee De Forest
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
~ John Naisbitt
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
~ Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.
~ Steven Johnson
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.
~ William J. Clinton
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
~ Don DeLillo
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
~ Steve Jobs
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
~ John W. Thompson
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
~ Gordon Moore
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
~ Tom Hanks
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
~ Richard Power
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum