Quotes About Innovation

Most of the places I came from, you gotta do a lot of gunslinging or coaching by the seat of your pants.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

My plan for 'The New York Times,' if I get the deal, will be putting the paper on every newsstand across the country and making 'The Times' accessible to every Chinese household. China is such a big market and is too big to miss.

It's just nice to see something from paper come to life on the screen.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

Yes, we have prototyped cars that can drive by themselves, but without smart vision, they cannot really tell the difference between a crumpled paper bag on the road, which can be run over, and a rock that size, which should be avoided.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

My idea is to create something that is at par with everything that is around the world or Hollywood.

I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion differently.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.

The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved.

It's no longer the older paradigm of, 'I want to own this market, and no one else can own this market because I own this market.' The Internet has made the market limitless.

The chalkboards are no longer cutting it. We've got to adapt education at every level to this new paradigm to keep our kids competitive. Affordability of technology has to be at the forefront of everything we do.

This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.

What we're going for is the future of engagement. That's what Calaxy is designed to do. It's a complete paradigm shift.

President Karzai was an accidental president. There was no paradigm for the conditions he faced, because no one could have imagined 9/11. He had to improvise under very difficult conditions to hold this country together.

We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.