Quotes About Innovation

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?

innovation thrives when rules are clear.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

A blah is a terrible thing to waste!

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can't drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can't have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app ' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.