Quotes About Innovation

Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.

I'm a rock star at the WeWorks and tech centers of New York.

Securing and attracting the best talent is an obsession in the tech industry for good reason. It's your main asset; it's your edge.

If the hard Brexit happens, I would assume that London wouldn't be the centre of the tech world in Europe.

I've always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.

It's weird; my fascination with tech was kind of combined with the fact that my parents would never pay for anything. It got me more involved because I would have to find clever ways to get things for free.

I want to help bring tech jobs to middle America and help us create more innovation clusters.

We're very tech light in our house.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

I am not a tech savvy person at all.

I built a lot of stuff as a kid. But I was not interested in tech, I thought it wasn't really for me.

I don't have a smart phone. I didn't have one when I arrived in the U.S., and somehow life has continued. I teach at Stanford University, I launched a tech company - miraculously, it all seems to work without a phone!

I was doing music tech as a subject and learned how to use Logic Pro and that's when I kind of had a platform to put my ideas on. It all just went from there.

I usually float between the tech and the business sides of the office.

India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.

Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.

My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

The reality is that unless you understand the regulatory environment and payment structure, you can't revolutionize it. I think most tech companies and startups have come to this realization: that you have to partner with people in the ecosystem.