Quotes About Innovation

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

I grew up in a weird environment. My mother's head of the home video division, basically. She played a big role in the invention of DVD - she won an Emmy for it. Or rather, she's part of a group that won an Emmy for it.

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

I used to like to come up with inventions because I hated working so much when I had my day job. I thought, 'All I need is a great idea, and I'm out of here.'

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.

When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

I am an inventor of music.