Quotes About Innovation

That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.

rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era.

En palabras de George Dyson: «El computador de programa almacenado, tal y como lo imaginó Alan Turing y lo plasmó John von Neumann, diluyó la distinción entre números que significan cosas y números que hacen cosas. Nuestro universo nunca volvería a ser el mismo».

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute

focused, yet he dazzled and baffled colleagues by suddenly changing his mind when he realized he needed to think different.

He didn't invent many things outright, but he was a master at putting together ideas, art, and technology in ways that invented the future. He

Outside of Search, Google's products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.

Ele chamou Gordon Moore e fundaram uma empresa que se tornou conhecida como Integrated Electronics Corporation, que eles inteligentemente abreviaram para Intel.

The little device that finally created a connection between home computers and global networks was called a modem.

In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his "Draft Report" on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprietary approach. In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving patents than they did on research and development of new products.64

Jobs took McCollum's class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device

sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery." Paul Jobs was then working at Spectra-Physics, a company in nearby Santa Clara that made lasers for electronics and medical products. As a machinist, he crafted the prototypes of products that the engineers

use as few chips as possible, both as a personal challenge and because he did not want to take advantage of his colleague's largesse. Much of the work was done in the garage of a friend just around the corner, Bill Fernandez, who was still at Homestead High. To lubricate their efforts, they drank large amounts of Cragmont cream soda, riding their bikes to the Sunnyvale

The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.

You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.

a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on.

His values were much aligned with mine. He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last." Markkula

It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

TIM COOK. Steady, calm, chief operating officer hired by Jobs in 1998; replaced Jobs as Apple CEO in August 2011.

He did it better because Steve had challenged him," said Atkinson

Jobs also decided to eliminate the cursor arrow keys on the Macintosh keyboard. The only way to move the cursor was to use the mouse. It was a way of forcing old-fashioned users to adapt to point-and-click navigation, even if they didn't want to. Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.

What is imagination?" she asked in an 1841 essay. "It is the Combining faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions in new, original, endless, ever-varying combinations. . . . It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."25

At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.