Quotes About Innovation

SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.

At Oculus, we're now looking at eye specialists, people who really understand how the human eye works, and how that affects human emotion.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.

I am very excited to partner with Doug Ewert and his team at Men's Wearhouse to take menswear specialty retail to a new level and to continue with George Zimmer's vision of great quality, great service, and, of course, great value.

If we could figure out ways for kids to exit college without having the burden of debt, what we have really figured out is how to create a more fertile breeding ground for people who can think innovatively and progress us as a species.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.

The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.

We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.

Original movies of any size are an endangered species.

Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

It's amazing to see how if we don't open our minds to something different, we wont evolve as a species.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.