Quotes About Innovation

Three decades ago, in a top story of the century, Americans placed six flags on the Moon. Today we no longer try for new and bold space achievements; instead, we celebrate the anniversaries of the past.

Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.

There are people much better placed to make music than me. It's always been a young person's game.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

I get inspired from all different kinds of places - cartoons, comic books, movies and things like that.

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

If I'm filming 'Dragons' Den', we work flat out until 8pm, although I love seeing the weird, wonderful and plain delusional.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.