Quotes About Innovation

Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don't do market research.

For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.