Quotes About Innovation

Jazz was way out front, clearing a path into a new era of truly free music, where the only limits were the musician's own consciousness and imagination, a music that cut across all boundaries yet still made perfect sense and swung like no music had ever swung before.

I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.

Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?

Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge?

If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

You know what Arthur C. Clarke said about technology and magic, right? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

It was unconventional, but conventions were there to make it easy on the fakers and cheats.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek ' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Creativity in science is almost always cumulative and collaborative; it proceeds collectively and thus thrives when barriers to collectivity are reduced.

claim is often made that without the near-term rewards of monopoly privilege, knowledge would not advance. This assumes a strikingly narrow notion of what motivates people to do creative work.

In a free market the people are free, the ideas are locked up.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.