Quotes About Innovation

Google was like the only company that was like, 'We're making so much money; let's take a picture of every street in the world.' Nobody does that.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

I've been, like, the mom of Google.

At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one of things I did here at Google when I arrived was to combine sales, marketing, engineering, and product.

People should understand that Google changes every day.

We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook.

If we think about how long Google spent searching - I think they came around in '98? And, OK, Gmail came in 2004, but it was literally built by one engineer as a 20%-time project. It was probably 10 years before Google started diversifying.

We wanted people to remember the name as soon as they heard it. When people become so accustomed to the Wii name, nobody is going to say it's a strange name, just like nobody is going to say that Google is a strange name or IKEA is a strange name today.

We're training Google Street View to recognize street numbers.

Leaving Google was really hard. It's such an incredible place to work and the people there are fantastic.

Understanding language is core to a lot of Google products such as Gmail.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

I got the copyright for love!

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?

You gotta have a gimmick.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make them say, 'That sounds like Rakim.'

The first season of a show's always a rollercoaster because nobody knows what they're doing. You gotta rush through the season trying to figure out: What is this show? And who are these characters?