Quotes About Innovation

It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible. A

It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible.

Chip sales to the Apollo program transformed Fairchild from a small startup into a firm with one thousand employees. Sales ballooned from $500,000 in 1958 to $21 million two years later.

in recent years is the collapse in the share of logic chips produced in the United States.

Real men" might have fabs, but Silicon Valley's new wave of semiconductor entrepreneurs didn't.

Nvidia's GPUs can render

The spread of semiconductors was enabled as much by clever manufacturing techniques as academic physics. Universities like MIT and Stanford played a crucial role in developing knowledge about semiconductors, but the chip industry only took off because graduates of these institutions spent years tweaking production processes to make mass manufacturing possible. It was engineering and intuition, as much as scientific theorizing, that turned a Bell Labs patent into a world-changing industry

Nvidia discovered a vast new market for parallel processing, from computational chemistry to weather forecasting.

It's about being genuine with it and being yourself—just bringing out the creativeness, not doing the same thing everybody else is doing, regardless of whether it don't break through or pop off immediately.

If there's something to steal, I steal it! — PICASSO

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION MAKES US INFINITE. — JOHN MUIR

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

Observation performed merely on its own is no more than what a machine can do—a surveillance camera, for instance. And imagination on its own, practiced by itself for too long, can cut you off from the world. You might wander away, like a hermit to a cave, becoming only a spirit to the rest of humanity. However, if you remain in the world, and you train yourself to combine observation and imagination in proper proportion...then you may change the world itself.

Everything is improved by the judicious application of primates.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

Agile processes of all kinds share one thing: they embrace change, approaching it as an opportunity for growth, rather than an obstacle.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

Scrum is a lightweight framework designed to help small, close-knit teams of people develop complex products.

The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.

Working software is the primary measure of progress.

It is not. The aspiring leader has been set up to fail. He just doesn't recognize it yet. The first few months go well, but reality soon sets in. It is not easy for one person to create change in a large corporation. After one year, the leader feels though he is trying to make innovation happen inside an organization that is, in every way, determined to fight his every move.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.