Quotes About Innovation

As a writer, you get to play, you get to alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Pollution, corruption, economic problems—there would be enough reason to fear for developing countries even if the coming tech disruption weren't expected.

In 2018, it's still too soon to know whether the tech revolution will kill more jobs than it creates.

As others have argued in many contexts, we do harm to emerging ways of doing things by protecting old ways.

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.

other minds, must continue to fascinate us. As artificial people became more like us, then became us, then became more than us, we could never tire of them. They were bound to surprise us. They might fail us in ways that were beyond our imagining. Tragedy was a possibility, but not boredom.

What people queued the entire weekend for became, six months later, as interesting as the socks on their feet. What happened to the cognition-enhancing helmets, the speaking fridges with a sense of smell? Gone the way of the mouse pad, the Filofax, the electric carving knife, the fondue set. The future kept arriving. Our bright new toys began to rust before we could get them home, and life went on much as before.

He needed that time edged with boredom in which fantasy could flourish.

Muslim-majority countries plagued by religious puritanism, by sexual sickness, by smothered invention.

My opinion," he said, "is that the haiku is the literary form of the future.

Surely, there was grandeur in experiment.

When player and listener together know the route so well, the pleasure is in the deviation, the unexpected turn against the grain. To see a world in a grain of sand.

The revolutionary lone inventor was a fantasy of popular culture – and the Minister

Our age could devise a passable replica of a human mind, but there was no one in our neighbourhood to fix a sash window, though a few had tried.

The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.

It's not an abomination. It's a bunnycat.

Have you ever heard of Arthur C. Clarke's third law of prediction? It states that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Take a smart phone and hand it to an ancient Roman. He'll think it's a magic window into the world of the gods and that the Beyoncé video playing on it is showing him Venus.

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally.

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.

We need more imagination, more innovation and more public financing for projects and programmes that harness the positive energy of young men.

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.