Quotes About Innovation

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

I can't force the direction that it's going to go without actually taking the time to make sure it's a great, great quality product. Whether that's for apparel, or whatever the case may be.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.