Quotes About Innovation

His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.

Fracking—to take one example—was not the brainchild of private-sector research but the fruit of research paid for twenty years ago by the DOE. Yet fracking has collapsed the price of oil and gas and led to American energy independence. Solar and wind technologies are another example. The

the people who already saw themselves as experts in the field would be least capable of original thought.

The power of an imagination can arise from what it refuses to foresee.

The technologist's tendency to commit all his resources to new technology

Burry did not think investing could be reduced to a formula or learned from any one role model. The more he studied Buffett, the less he thought Buffett could be copied; indeed, the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. "If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are," Burry said. "At one point I recognized

The only thing capitalism cannot survive is stability. Stability—true stability—is an absence of progress, and a dearth of new wealth.

Moore's law came with a social corollary: high-tech could not remain high-tech for long.

For a technology company to succeed, he argued, it needed always to be looking to destroy itself. If it didn't, someone else would.

The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his dwelling.

In context the computer programmers appeared idle. They sat quietly, stared into their screens and sipped cappuccinos. And yet they were by far the most important people on board Hyperion.

a thousand people don't build anything; if you need to build something really complicated really fast, you hire fifty of the smartest people you can find.

Lance was to computer programming what Joyce was to literature, possibly profound but also baffling.

The trick was not simply to write the code that turned information into pictures but to find the best pictures to draw—shapes and colors that led the mind to meaning.

With every stroke of their keyboards they hacked a path through the forest that others would be required to follow.

Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half.

Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the "originate and sell" model. This proved such a hit—Wall Street would buy your loans, even if you would not!—that a new company, called B&C mortgage, was founded to do nothing but originate and sell.

Silicon Valley in the late 1990s was the closest that business has ever come to resembling a child's chemistry experiment.

The specific thing that blew my mind was using multiple semi-effective strategies together. There was no silver bullet. Right then I say, 'This is important. This has legs. It's not my job. I don't give a shit. I'm working on this.

People like Justin Frankel and Daniel Sheldon linger on the fringe until they dream up something that has great commercial potential. Then some big company swoops in and buys them, or they give birth to the big company themselves.

These days the investment bankers came to Silicon Valley.

I always thought that the biggest opportunity on the Internet was the vertical markets," Clark continued. "I didn't know anything about health care, but I was looking for something worth doing and…

The Internet changes everything," said Long. "Everyone can get connected on the Internet.

that have become more productive. In 1950, the average cow yielded 5,300 pounds of milk. In 2016, the average cow yielded 23,000 pounds of milk. A Wisconsin Holstein recently yielded nearly 75,000 pounds of milk in a year, which amounts to roughly 24 gallons a day. Her name is Gigi. You can thank her later.