Quotes About Innovation

Verizon had just come out with FiOS, and AT&T had U-verse. We came up with a couple of options, and then our marketing people came in and said, 'What do you think of Xfinity?'

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Most automakers develop multiple options for a single project. Then they present those options to a committee of executives who decide which one to go with. That takes a lot of time.

I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you will find, but when Apple music and digital options came out, like for everyone else, it was more conducive to my lifestyle.

We must have options to make tennis more attractive emotions-wise.

Many in the world would have us choose safer options - keep this player, instead of taking a gamble on a player whose name you don't know. But when that player becomes Robert Covington, people are excited. We've chosen that sort of thing very often.

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.

We care about this not being a world where 600 people have gotten on orbit; we want it to be 600,000.

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.