Quotes About Innovation

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

The pride of the digital age is not just in the possession of innovative tools but the ability to skillfully connect with humans behind them

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.