Quotes About Innovation

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

That computer was made in Alabama

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!

The purpose of computers is human freedom.