Quotes About Innovation

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

We must free science and medicine from the grasp of politics.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

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

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

People everywhere love Windows.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1 000 MPG.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.