Quotes About Innovation

One of the reasons I think Y Combinator is so powerful is because it creates a new social norm, especially for those who come from outside Silicon Valley.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

If you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a company, I think the first thing you do is you go and talk to a bunch of people. But then the next thing you probably should do is figure out if there's a broader demand than just people you know. That's where I think SurveyMonkey is pretty valuable to people.

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer Internet and e-commerce companies.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.