Quotes About Innovation

You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound.

If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.

A 'reptilian revolution' has the potential to reshape manufacturing. The 'snakebots' being developed at Carnegie Mellon University aren't just useful for surgical or search-and-rescue purposes. They could also usher in a new, more customized era of mass production.

I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.

QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

We have a lot of work to do to get really important useful capabilities into people's hands - self-driving cars are going to save an enormous number of lives.

One of the things I love about Fox News is that it looks at something and tries to figure out how it can be useful in the journey and bring everybody else along and lead the way.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.

It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.

Apple's proven to be really good at taking what we're capable of with technology and making it useful and solve human problems.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.