Quotes About Innovation

engines of wealth; they must be viewed as systems that should be shaped to improve human well-being.

In 2010 Miami, Florida, became the first major city to toss out its entire zoning book in favor of a homegrown form-based code.

Unfortunately, the technological fixes have frequently only enabled those who run the commercial airlines, the general aviation community, and the military to run greater risks in search of increased performance.

Some people believe that Moore's Law will continue to be accurate until about 2015.

Today's computers use transistors. When used in computers, transistors basically function the same way relays do, but (as we'll see) they're much faster and much smaller and much quieter and use much less power and are much cheaper. Building an 8-Bit Adder still requires 144 transistors (more if you replace the ripple carry with a look-ahead carry), but the circuit is microscopic.

Just as Morse code provides a good introduction to the nature of codes, the telegraph provides a good introduction to the hardware of the computer.

We can laugh all we like at Micromaniacs, but they will have the last laugh - because they are designing the future that the rest of us will have to live in.

Transistors enable logic gates; logic gates enable flip-flops; and flip-flops enable many mathematical, storage, and retrieval functions in digital computing.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton 's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Writing programs (or programming) is a very creative and rewarding activity. You can write programs for many reasons ranging from making your living to solving a difficult data analysis problem to having fun to helping someone else solve a problem.

for academics who are continuously told to "publish or perish" to want to always create something from

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean (merely average performance).

Never solve a problem from its original perspective.

I invented a new word today: plagiarism.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

What the audience heard was like nothing they had ever encountered.

At a time when we can split the atom, land on the moon, and decode the human genome, why do 2 billion people live on less than $2 a day?