Quotes About Innovation

The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.

When looking at the same sky, people in mature industries see clouds where people in immature industries see pie.

The American experiment was frequently shaped by a rejection of old ways and openness to the new. In religious terms, this rejection created over time a nation unique in its ability to absorb and be built by those of different beliefs; people who believed there were many gods, or none at all.

The '60s were an amazing time.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

School should be about improving a kid's life, about encouraging him to think new thoughts, about giving him new abilities, or about coming up with new ambitions." - Roger Schank.

You and I may look at a banana and see a banana. If forced to come up with something more inventive to do with it, perhaps we'd mash it up, or maybe we'd dip it in chocolate, and say 'What a good boy am I.

Techno was invented in Berlin

scenario creation is a function of good imagination.

if you wanted to see the future you could not go to conventional sources of information.

the advantage of some ignorance; it leaves some room for creativity. But sometimes it feels like ignorance is endemic in this industry-that people are unaware of things and wheels are constantly being reinvented with pointy corners.

Because we were so smart and we had so much experience. We had it wired. Couldn't miss. Programmers are optimistic. And we have to be because if we weren't optimists we couldn't do this work. Which is why we fall prey to things like second systems, why we can't schedule our projects, why this stuff is so hard.

I think the primary limitation on software is not the speed of computers but our ability to get our heads around what it's supposed to do.

I think it's not an accident that we often use the imagery of magic to describe programming. We speak of computing wizards and we think of things happening by magic or automagically. And I think that's because being able to get a machine to do what you want is the closest thing we've got in technology to adolescent wish-fulfillment.

Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.

Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.

I think it is always going to be true that a person who manages programmers should not expect it to be predictable.

You don't get credit because the program works. We're going to the next level. Working programs are a given,

Armstrong: Yeah, then all the bits fit together. But maybe I can't explain it to anybody. I just get a very strong feeling that if I start writing the program now it'll work. I don't really know what the solution is. It's like an egg. The chicken's ready to lay the egg. Now I'm ready to lay the egg.

The Web is broken and we need to fix it.

nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways to automatically analyze code, coming up with better ways for programmers to work together, or finding (or designing) better programming languages.

Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.