Quotes About Innovation

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.