Quotes About Innovation

Machine intelligence will improve its own abilities in a feedback cycle that unaided human intelligence will not be able to follow.

The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding at an exponential pace.

It's likely [that we're] just another ten to twelve years away from the point that the general public will hit longevity escape velocity.

It was not Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank that overturned the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, but rather the clandestine network of fax machines, photocopiers, video recorders, and personal computers that broke decades of totalitarian control of information

Substantial portions of our species still live in this precarious way, which is at least one reason to continue technological progress and the economic enhancement that accompanies it.

once an AI goal is achieved, it is no longer considered as falling within the realm of AI and becomes instead just a useful general technique. AI is thus often regarded as the set of problems that have not yet been solved.

Ironically it is GMO plants—many of which are designed to resist insects and other forms of blight and thereby require greatly reduced levels of chemicals, if any—that offer the best hope for reversing environmental assault from chemicals such as pesticides.

A century ago 30 percent of the U.S. workforce was employed on farms, with another 30 percent in factories. Both of these figures are now under 3 percent.2 Many of today's job categories, ranging from flight controller to Web designer, simply didn't exist a century ago.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it's stuck. —MARVIN MINSKY

One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human brain.9

Increasing complexity" on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.

Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any problems beyond that are not ours to solve …

By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique.

Life is too short to do mediocre work. Measure twice, cut once. Raise the bar. Exceed expectations. Create value. Leave your mark.

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.

Some people just stick to what they do, and it comes back to bite them in the butt.