Quotes About Innovation

When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.

Me and Stormzy. We're gonna do an album. We're gonna do an album of Nelson Riddle arrangements in grime form. It's gonna be called 'Griddle'.

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.

In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city.

Everything about the Net is wonderful.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

Netflix completely shook up the world.

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.

I always admired Netflix's business model; they are really good at what they do.

Luck was a huge part of the Netflix story.

If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I'll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I'm settling for a Caavo.

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

Some of my fondest memories of the early years of Netflix have to do with our efforts to figure out the most efficient, effective, and fast methods to get DVDs to people all over the country.