Quotes About Innovation

You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

We had a bunch of 'we's - a fitness concept, a restaurant concept. The first business plan we had included all of them.

I don't plan massively in advance.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

We were re-engineering the entire business and at the same time having accelerated growth. That's like changing the engine while the plane is in the air.

Planes do not inspire me.

We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space.

I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

At its core, HP has the best technologists on the planet Earth.

The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.