Quotes About Innovation

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Life goes on, and we have to keep coming up with fresh ideas.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.

Baidu's AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish. After Baidu, I am excited to continue working toward the AI transformation of our society and the use of AI to make life better for everyone.

Instead of going into the kitchen all the time - I hate running up and down the stairs - I started using my Weber as a stovetop.

If big, old-fashioned businesses don't attract female talent, then small up-and-coming ones will, and they will end up winning.

I would love to bring it up-to-date and get some more people interested in snooker.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.