Quotes About Innovation

Making Carbon-Free Electricity Nuclear fission. Here's the one-sentence case for nuclear power: It's the only carbon-free energy source that can reliably deliver power day and night, through every season, almost anywhere on earth, that has been proven to work on a large scale.

The world needs to provide more energy so the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases. Now the problem seemed even harder.

It wasn't enough to deliver cheap, reliable energy for the poor. It also had to be clean.

What's most important is that the world get serious once again about advancing the field of nuclear energy. It's just too promising to ignore

Technology is only one reason that the energy industry can't change as quickly as the computer industry. There's also size. The energy industry is simply enormous—at around $5 trillion a year, one of the biggest businesses on the planet. Anything that big and complex will resist change.

David Foster Wallace. (I'm preparing for his mammoth novel Infinite Jest by

The countries that build great zero-carbon companies and industries will be the ones that lead the global economy in the coming decades.

Instead, in all likelihood, in a zero-carbon future we will still be producing some emissions, but we'll have ways to remove the carbon they emit.

You must have the courage to follow an unconventional path.

The hierarchical, directive leadership style so prevalent in the past century is fading fast in favor of today's collaborative leaders, who

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.?

In America, there's no idea so patently absurd that it can't catch on.

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating.

The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

Verbing weirds language.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them.

No sport is less organized than Calvinball.

Imagination is not always appreciated.

I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.

Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.