Quotes About Innovation

I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing, and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we'll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don't think the great American tweet has been written yet. We'd know.

I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business.

As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.

Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.

Innovation is like looking for pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. You have to find a lot of pieces that don't match to find the one or two pieces that match.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.