Quotes About Innovation

I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.

I want to make smart television.

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

I liked working with smart people.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

Elon Musk is a very, very smart man, but there are a lot of smart people in this world, and you've got to execute. He's got execution problems.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.

I've certainly seen R&D groups, typically funded by large corporations, where they bring together a lot of smart people and nothing happens. And the reason nothing happens is that they don't have a clear goal.

If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.

It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way.

We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.

Smarter is always the answer.

I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.

Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.