Quotes About Innovation

Bulgarian professor named John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, who were building a machine that was intended to automate the solution of some especially tedious differential equations.

Neal Stephenson

Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport.

Disney and Apple/Microsoft are in the same business: short-circuiting laborious, explicit verbal communication with expensively designed interfaces. Disney is a sort of user interface unto itself—and more than just graphical. Let's call it a Sensorial Interface. It can be applied to anything in the world, real or imagined, albeit at staggering expense.

But the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.

Well, that's good. I don't think human-written code exists anymore. It's code written by code written by code—turtles all the way down.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

On the kitchen table a MakerBot was producing a small plastic part, watched intently by a young woman who was talking on her phone in a mix of English and Mandarin.

Neal Stephenson

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo," Enoch said.

Desktops encourage the use of paper, which is archaic and reflects inadequate team spirit. What is so special about your work that you have to write it down on a piece of paper that only you get to see?

HE WORKED IT OUT FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES ON THE WHITEBOARD

The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong:

Neal Stephenson

So GUIs use metaphors to make computing easier, but they are bad metaphors.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt.

had in mind a Dr. Waterhouse," Eliza said. "He was cut for the stone recently." The Marquis got the same aghast, cringing, yet fascinated look that all men did whenever the topic of lithotomy arose

We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies

It was clear how he had become the leader of a sort of gang back home: not by asserting his leadership but by being so relentless in his production, evaluation, and exploitation of ideas that his friends had been left with no choice but to form up in his wake.

Neal Stephenson

Young, lavishly bearded tech entrepreneurs were trudging forlornly down the hallways, laden with computers, printers, high-end coffeemakers, and foosball tables. Like digital Okies they loaded their stuff into their Scions or Ryder trucks and rumbled off into the unforgiving Boston commercial real estate market.

amística, un término acuñado hacía eones por un antropólogo moirano para referirse a las elecciones que hacían las diferentes culturas en cuanto a qué tecnologías formarían parte de su vida y cuáles no.

Neal Stephenson

Another wonderful product from our sneaky little Jap friends." Intense movement and color blossomed on all six of the monitors. This crack about the Japanese