Quotes About Innovation

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day." -Bruce Mau.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Schools do need to measure, but they also need to move. Moving is more important than measuring. Accordingly

In 2015, a petabyte of cloud storage will cost $100,000 per year, down 90% from $1 million in 2011.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003.

Writer and Internet activist Clay Shirky has noted that "institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Data is the exhaust of the information age.

Anyone who tries to create his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a genius or a fool. Givent the geius/fool ratio of our species, the odds aren't very good.

Anyone who tries to create his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a genius or a fool. Givent the genius/fool ratio of our species, the odds aren't very good.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Google created Google+ as its effort to steal Facebook's oxygen, but it turns out that social networks aren't commodities.

The Internet of Things is not about a talking refrigerator, because that is the old-fashioned consumer retail world of electrical white goods. It's an archaic concept, like software bought in a plastic-wrapped box from a shelf. The genuine Internet of Things wants to invade that refrigerator, measure it, instrument it, monitor any interactions with it; it would cheerfully give away a fridge at cost.

The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.

Anywhere there is variety there is the risk of change. Change that can't be tolerated.

The Internet of Things makes no attempt to redress, or even address, the many real problems that the internet brought to the world. On the contrary, it's an international effort to bring everything that wasn't internet within the purview of the techno-elite that currently dominates the internet.

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change—Progress. We need Progress!

One of the great beauties of politicians as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It's a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.

That doesn't mean that the Internet of Things will triumph, because, in some ways, it can't win. It's too broad and vague to win; it's a huge, looming infrastructural phenomenon, much like "electrification" or "automation" once were. People never voted to become electrical or automated.