Quotes About Innovation

Enterprising government employees become consultants.

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

For an idea that does not at first seem insane, there is no hope.

Einstein looked as if he'd just smoked an exploding cigar." Albert's years at the patent office were wonderful.

Though Marcus' essay extends over 13 pages of small text, at its core is a very simple premise: Contemporary American fiction has lost its innovative edge and its interest in language as art, and Jonathan Franzen is largely, if not exclusively, to blame.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

She talked about getting some Pam cooking spray—or WD-40, but Pam was cheaper—because coating the walls of the toilet chutes with it makes waste less likely to stick.

a glimpse of utopia.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

With marketing, with customer acquisition, with accounting, I first look and say, "Hey, what's taking people's time? What can we automate?" If I can't automate it, do I really need it to be done? If I do need it to be done, all right, then we'll open a req.

As Howard Aiken said, "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

When I got done, I'm looking at these two floppies that look just the same. And I decided that I might have written onto the good one from the bad, and I did. So I had lost it all. I went back to my hotel room. I slept for a while. I got up about 10:00 a.m. or so. I sat down and, out of my head and my listings, recreated everything, got it working again, and we showed it at the show.

Why things happen, I just don't know. Maybe somebody has a need and, in our case, we had a need. That's what triggered the idea. Sometimes ideas are born out of necessity: you solve a problem for yourself, and you hopefully solve it for a number of other people too.

Wozniak: Well, actually we never did much in the garage. People think we had a garage where we sat down with soldering irons and we designed stuff. No.

I hope that someday they invent a car that runs on inappropriate thoughts

What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

If you don't make mistakes, you're not really trying

It is the laziness of mind to believe that what hasn't been , cannot be and will not be.

The devil take all conventions, they were made for other times.

The orchestra sounds a flourish. A chap with a chrysanthemum in his buttonhole comes to the front and explains that a couple will now give a demonstration of the latest thing from Berlin—a fox trot! That is unknown here as yet; we have only heard tell of it.