Quotes About Innovation

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing work that formerly required many more people. If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. People can be treated as drudges just as effectively without modern machines.

Dicho científico decidió desarrollar un aparato que contara el número de veces que una partícula surge y desaparece en un segundo. Denominó, con gran acierto, al aparato que había inventado: "cámara de burbujas", y se encontró con que una partícula subatómica surge y se desvanece 1022 veces por segundo.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

The path of genius is free, and its own

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.

Although the Muslim commercial web possessed many advanced features, including bills of exchange, sophisticated lending institutions, and futures markets, no Islamic state ever established the bedrock financial institution of the modern world: a national or central bank

Schmandt-Besserat's work caused a stir mainly because it seemed to contradict the "pictographic theory," that writing evolved directly from pictures—a theory that is still taught to schoolchildren. Her "token hypothesis" was so bold and so different from the pictographic theory that it could not help but evoke controversy.14

David Sarnoff had predicted, the radio became the ornate mahogany god of the American living room: there were three million sets in 1924, thirty million in 1936, and fifty million by 1940, by which time a simple radio could be had for less than ten dollars.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.

Writing is magic for those willing to follow their imagination to a region where anything is possible.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

The iPod was a leak. It was a danger. I brought it down to the basement and laid it on my little worktable, glass side up, and I got a hammer and smashed it.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

What matters, though, is not the space you're put in to work; what matters is the work you do in it. The Manhattan Project, the World War II race to develop the atomic bomb, also started out under a football stadium. Beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi built a crude fission reactor, brought its uranium fuel to critical mass, and set off a chain reaction that changed the world. We