Quotes About Innovation

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

I do think that we're gonna move towards this world where eventually you'll be able to capture a whole experience that you're in and be able to send that to someone.

The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

You have to grow and evolve and look towards the future.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.

My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.

We're trending towards the holodeck. Eventually we'll have a system that's indistinguishable from reality.

The film industry is moving towards digital technology.

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

Unlearning is gaining importance as workplaces are moving towards agile, collaborative working models. While conventional education adds to our knowledge, unlearning will become the new learning in the coming decade, as concepts and ideas keep evolving.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.