Quotes About Innovation

You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we'd be looking at a spectacular car today.

I had a spectacular four years as OpenTable CEO and remain an active executive chairman. I think, for me, some of the interesting observations there are, you know, global is important, mobile is extremely important. And then, network businesses are very attractive.

What Guardiola has done as coach of Barcelona is really spectacular.

In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference.

I'd like to help the professional game to get it more exciting, more spectacular, more honest also.

Every two and a half years, every spectrum crisis has gotten solved, and that's going to keep happening.

Cellular companies don't innovate, they just buy more spectrum.

Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.

We started solely concentrating on cleaning up the Garbage Patch because we felt it was the most neglected part of the spectrum of solutions.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

I'm not trying to make a speech on CD because who wants to buy that?

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.