Quotes About Innovation

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

Well, it's true. If she ever had an original thought it would die of loneliness.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers." Man Ray

Firestone's comprehensive vision of a future, more progressive era defined by greater reproductive control seems strongly influenced by the tradition that equated technological innovation with social progress through greater mastery of human evolution— a tradition we might call progressive biofuturism.

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Si queremos modernizar al país, tenemos que comenzar por modernizar nuestra política

Enter José Antonio González: socialist mayor of the small Granadan city of Jun and part-time hacker, who had brought innovation to his town's democracy by introducing direct public participation through social networks with help from MIT researchers and the support of Twitter's very own CEO.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.