Quotes About Innovation

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

the conspirators had completed experiments on potent liquid explosives manufactured from hydrogen peroxide, hexamine, and citric acid. Their formula could disguise a powerful bomb as a colored sports drink, to be detonated by ordinary AA batteries.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Intelligence involves a great deal more than the ability to follow rules ( which is what chess-playing program does). It is also the ability to make up the rules for oneself, when they are needed, or to learn new rules through trial and error.

If you do what you've always done, your life will not get better.

Successful people appreciate where they have come from, but they don't let their past set the tone for their future. Successful people are innovators.

The thing I can't wrap my head around with artificial intelligence is its effect of doing away with the value you bring to the table in terms of labor. The ability to contribute is diminishing. There are fewer and fewer jobs where people can go home satisfied in the evening and say I did something amazing today.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

And one more thing...

iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.