Quotes About Innovation

I was the first one to have high-speed Internet before all my friends.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

Echo & the Bunnymen just copied 'People Are Strange,' which is cool, we made some money, thanks. But when an artist finds a new interpretation of one of your songs, that's great. It turns your head around.

What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it's fair to ask the question.

Sometimes, late at night on the set of 'Project Runway,' I've been known to pop an interpretive dance.

There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.

I'm most comfortable at the intersection of technology and helping people; that's really what gets me going and gets me excited and what I get most passionate about.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

I was talking in an interview about how I would love to have a ballerina flat for men. Repetto heard about it and decided to create one. It's almost like a slipper.

You have a system that washes, dries, folds, and puts clothes away? Forget your hydrogen scoop engine, we'd kill for something like that on Earth!

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

What Is Diffusion? Diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system.

Most innovations, in fact, diffuse at a disappointingly slow rate. Scurvy control illustrates how slowly an obviously beneficial innovation spreads (Mosteller, 1981). In the early days of long sea voyages, scurvy was a worse killer of sailors than warfare, accidents, and all other causes of death. For instance, of Vasco de Gama's crew of 160 men who sailed with him around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, 100 died of scurvy.