Quotes About Innovation

What will happen if our labor is no longer needed? If jobs for warehouse workers, garbage collectors, doctors, lawyers, and journalists are displaced by technology?

Gradually, he began to understand that the AI community was actually his philosophical enemy. After all, their vision was to replace humans with machines, while he wanted to extend and empower people.

When personal computing finally blossomed in Silicon Valley in the mid-seventies, it did so largely without the benefit of any of the history and the research that had gone before it.

He offered his readers a quick tour of Vannevar Bush's Memex system and spent several pages discussing "associative linking" possibilities, a notion that was to serve as the forerunner of hypertext and led three decades later to the World Wide Web.

There was an abyss between the original work done by Engelbart's group in the sixties and the motley crew of hobbyists that would create the personal-computer industry beginning in 1975.

A time of open scientific and technical experimentation, the period 1963 to 1969 was considered the "golden years" of AI.

Dozens of the world's best computer scientists began their careers at SAIL. More than half a dozen companies including Foonly, Imagen, Xidex, Vicarm, Valid Logic, Sun Microsystems, Xerox PARC, and Cisco Systems can trace their technology either directly or indirectly to SAIL.

You were born an original, don't die a copy

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilisation.

La cosa importante per il governo non è fare ciò che gli individui fanno già, e farlo un po' meglio o un po' peggio, ma fare ciò che presentemente non si fa del tutto.

as soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.