Quotes About Innovation

Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.

A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

If you think about the actual problems we are facing - all the crises - we have the means to solve these crises. The past has shown us we are able to do things we never imagined we would be able to do.

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

Data helps solve problems.

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

I believe mobile technology has a much broader role to play. It could solve some of the biggest problems on earth.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

Messaging is such an integral part of our lives, and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to.

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.

One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. If you don't solve the right problem at the right time, that's the end. Mortality puts priorities into sharp focus.

A true entrepreneurial enterprise begins with a big idea - a unique way to solve a customer's problem. Your customer, after all, is the only justification for creating a company in the first place. Without a big, transformational idea, you can't produce a great result for your customer.

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.