Quotes About Innovation

Because when the law implicitly or explicitly limits internal competition and bars new entrants, businesses have little, if any, incentive to innovate. As a result, regulated businesses—which include public utilities, air travel, defense, health care, and food and drugs—have fallen dangerously far behind in adopting exponential technologies. Once the disruptors do find a way in, collapse is that much more sudden.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

First two cells to diddle each other's genes: 'I'm only doing this, Anita, because I want your descendants to be an improvement on you.' 'Egotist.

If you look at anything long enough, it turns into style.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Ethics change with technology.

What is the dirty little secret of innovation? It's simply this: most innovations fail.

Serial innovators don't fall into the tinkering trap. They don't try to fix everything that's broken or improve things that aren't running perfectly. Instead, they focus on fixing the things that will make the biggest difference.

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

Having a strong vision can help with innovation, but so much creativity and innovation comes from one's ability to take risks – controlled risks – and learn from mistakes.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Tenemos algo que los robots no tienen, al menos por el momento. Imaginación.

La imaginación es como un músculo que hay que tener bien entrenado y alimentado.

There sat a twelve-foot-long, nine-thousand-pound bomb called Little Boy.

The autos alone remained to conquer space.