Quotes About Innovation

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I'd much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.