Quotes About Innovation

All human societies contain inventive people. It's just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today." (Interview, Sierra Magazine , May/June 2005)

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Joskus minua ihan nolottaa, miten edellä olen muita.

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

My experience tells me that API users are really creative. Sometimes the API user's horizon is farther than that of the API designer. If there is a way to misuse something, users are likely to do so.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

Ford convinced the American public to believe in gasoline cars. And then Ford became Ford, and America became America.

Riverbank Laboratories, an idea factory christened by wartime realities. It not only forged a new science of immense power; it also spawned a love affair that spread the science and ultimately sharpened it into an antifascist weapon.

Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.

Anti-Tachyon displacement emitter AKA Flux Capacitor

a quote from Henry Ford: "THINKING ALWAYS AHEAD, THINKING ALWAYS OF TRYING TO DO MORE, BRINGS A STATE OF MIND IN WHICH NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Respect the work that you've never done before.

Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)

WE ALL HAVE ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn't last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.