Quotes About Innovation

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

It's like what Miles Davis says: "Don't worry about mistakes, there aren't any.

The greatest enthusiasm in the world won't make up for a business plan that doesn't work.

I shop at a computer store called, "Your Crap Is Already Obsolete."

When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

We've arrived at the point where technology and information come hurtling towards us.

When you encounter a problem, recognize that your solution likely is right alongside the problem itself.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

We are already engineering the Earth's operating system by dumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into it every year. We're just doing it badly. Why not get good at it?

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.

When given a choice between two, choose the third.

On the night of March 17, 1887, most of Fort Myers's other 349 residents lined up outside the Edison estate and gasped with wonder as its lights went on. The local newspaper speculated that a date would soon be announced for the rest of the community to be properly wired and illuminated. But the anticipated shipments didn't arrive, and Edison returned to New Jersey.

At age twelve, his first job was as a railway newspaper boy, hawking wares to passengers on a Midwest rail line. But Edison soon realized he could make more money selling his own newspaper. The preteen began reporting and publishing the Grand Trunk Herald, a gossipy conglomeration of short articles about railroad employees, regular passengers, and bits of news about popular stops and amenities to be found there.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

The best ideas in science are always simple, elegant, and unexpected

Engineering does not replace art in a design, it makes it possible.

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. — HENRY FORD

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.