Quotes About Innovation

Lathrop applied for a patent on the technique in 1957. With the Army band playing, the military gave him a medal for his work and a $25,000 cash bonus, which he used to buy his family a Nash Rambler station wagon.

Members of Congress would no doubt have been furious had they learned that DARPA—ostensibly a defense agency—was wining and dining professors of computer science as they theorized about chip design. But it was efforts like these that shrank transistors, discovered new uses for semiconductors, drove new customers to buy them, and funded the subsequent generation of smaller transistors. When it came to semiconductor design, no country in the world had a better innovation ecosystem.

By the end of the 1980s, a chip with a million transistors—unthinkable in the early 1970s, when Lynn Conway had arrived in Silicon Valley—had become a reality, when Intel announced its 486 microprocessor, a small piece of silicon packed with 1.2 million microscopic switches.

Haggerty and Kilby realized that light rays and photoresists could solve the mass-production problem, mechanizing and miniaturizing chipmaking in

The greatest beneficiary of the rise of foundries like TSMC was a company that most people don't even realize designs chips: Apple. The company Steve Jobs built has always specialized in hardware, however, so it's no surprise that Apple's desire to perfect its devices includes controlling the silicon inside.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

It would be wonderful when you get a new idea, one that you're grateful for if you gave a nod to Tao, an acknowledgment. You get more new ideas that way.

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

I figured that the way to get an undertaking like this on the move was to throw some cold beer at it...

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. —Albert Einstein

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?" She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best. You people are in a rut. You need to move into this century.

I think the future of life lies in the hands of the biochemists, when there won't be any cures, but rather preventives.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Christopher Fowler

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?

Find a society that's adopted the teachings of Spinoza, Voltaire, Galileo, Einstein, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and gone down the pits—as a result of doing that—into famine and war and dictatorship and torture and repression. That's the experiment I would like to run. I don't think that's going to end up with a gulag.

Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.

It's possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.

Are we solving a problem, or manufacturing a problem to fit our solution?