Quotes About Innovation

Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.

Possession is not as important as it once was. Accessing is more important than ever. Pretend

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We

Software eats everything.

there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product.

Every 12 months we produce 8 million new songs, 2 million new books, 16,000 new films, 30 billion blog posts, 182 billion tweets, 400,000 new products.

If you want a glimpse of what we humans do when the robots take our current jobs, look at experiences. That's where we'll spend our money (because they won't be free) and that's where we'll make our money. We'll

These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.

Even a very tiny amount of useful intelligence embedded into an existing process boosts its effectiveness to a whole other level.

But the general trends of the products and services in 30 years are currently visible. Their basic forms are rooted in directions generated by emerging technologies now on their way to ubiquity. This wide, fast-moving system of technology bends the culture subtly, but steadily, so it amplifies the following forces: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

It is no coincidence that 66 percent per year is the same as doubling every 18 months, which is the rate of Moore's Law. Five

Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products.

One reason so much money is flowing into the service frontier is that there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product. The number of different ways to recast transportation as a service is almost unlimited. Uber is merely one variation. There are dozens more already established, and many more possible. The general approach for entrepreneurs is to unbundle the benefits of transportation (or any X) into separate constituent goods and then recombine them in new ways.

once we wrapped the globe in endless circles of wires crossing the deserts and beneath the oceans, decentralization was not only possible, but inevitable.

By 2026, Google's main product will not be search but AI.

Cognifying photography has revolutionized it because intelligence enables cameras to slip into anything (in a sunglass frame, in a color on clothes, in a pen) and do more, including calculate 3-D, HD, and many other options that earlier would have taken $100,000 and a van full of equipment to do. Now cognified photography is something almost any device can do as a side job.

Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can't think.

That monopoly of a persistent identity is the real engine of Facebook's remarkable success.

By 2050 most truck drivers won't be human. Since truck driving is currently the most common occupation in the U.S., this is a big deal.

We are constantly surprised by things that have been happening for 20 years or longer. I

The Internet will be the CB radio of the '90s," he told me, a charge he later repeated to the press. Weiswasser summed up ABC's argument for ignoring the new medium: "You aren't going to turn passive consumers into active trollers on the internet.

Looking back, I think the computer age did not really start until this moment, when computers merged with the telephone. Stand-alone computers were inadequate. All the enduring consequences of computation did not start until the early 1980s, that moment when computers married phones and melded into a robust hybrid. In

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years.