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Quotes About Innovation

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
~ Steven Levy
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.
~ Noam Chomsky
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
~ Tom Holt
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
~ Arthur Levitt Jr
If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.
~ Arno Allan Penzias
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
~ Alan Kay
Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.
~ Robert Watson-Watt
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
~ Koichi Tanaka
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
~ Al Gore
Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
~ Alexander McQueen
It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
~ Tom Brokaw
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
~ Freeman Dyson
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
~ Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
~ Matt Blunt
To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.
~ Don Tapscott
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.
~ Clement Mok
In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.
~ Andy Rubin
Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.
~ Juan Enriquez
Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
~ Marissa Mayer
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.
~ Jaron Lanier
All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.
~ Hans Zimmer
The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?
~ Luis von Ahn