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Quotes About Innovation

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
~ Bill Gates
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
~ Brian Eno
The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.
~ Phil Donahue
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
~ Douglas Coupland
The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
~ Eric S. Raymond
The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
~ Clifford Stoll
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.
~ Martin Gardner
Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.
~ Dave Barry
Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.
~ Dieter Rams
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
~ K. Eric Drexler
Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.
~ John Maeda
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
~ Roberta Williams
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
~ Garry Kasparov
Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
~ George Gilder
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
~ Hal Abelson
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
~ Unknown
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
~ Walter Isaacson
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
~ Stan Kelly-Bootle
I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.
~ John Rhys-Davies
Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.
~ Anthony Hopkins
My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses
~ Bill Murray
It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.
~ Daniel Simon