Quotes About Innovation

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

when you don't have the hardware resources, you have to take advantage of what you have inside the chip

Try to think of new ways to solve the old problems. Very often we look at something we have and say, "I could make it better.' That's innovation.

He took the time—a lot of time—to show me those few little things. They were little things to him, even though Fairchild and Texas Instruments had just developed the transistor only a decade earlier.

a lot of people confuse that story with Apple's, saying that we started Apple in a garage. Not true. HP started in a garage, true. But in the case of Apple, I worked in my room at my apartment and Steve worked in his bedroom in his parents' house. We only did the very last part of assembly in his garage

When we started Apple, Steve Jobs and I talked about how we wanted to make blind people as equal and capable as sighted people, and you'd have to say we succeeded when you look at all the people walking down the sidewalk looking down at something in their hands and totally oblivious to everything around them!

Glints or kicks can be diminished by repositioning a shiny object or by applying washable dulling spray or even soap.

Your job is to find better ideas, mine is to cut holes in the ones you have, and you've already done that pretty well.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.

I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it.

I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.

Skunk works differed from advanced research groups in that they were more than just product development groups. They had direct interaction with customers and controlled a sales channel which allowed them to negotiate their own deals with customers.

Every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit.

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.