Quotes About Innovation

The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.

Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.

My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.

Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation's career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.

The Wonderstar collection is a fantastic fusion of Hollywood glamour and Wonderbra's technical genius.

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.

Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.

I started off life at Pixar with interesting technical problems. But as time has moved on, I found that the social and management problem was far more complex and interesting.

For me, some of the most intense creativity comes when something has to change for technical or design reasons, and you're trying to find a way to make it fit the fiction.

Every entrepreneur doesn't need to be technical - there are plenty of opportunities out there for people who aren't coders.

I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too.

What draws us to a city like San Francisco is the same thing that draws entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers to WeWork: it's the creative atmosphere, the technical sophistication, and the strong sense of community.

I always wanted to have a technical career that was also creative. I have been extremely lucky in that sense to be able to combine those two things.

It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in, is inventing technical solutions to our problems.

We just think it's important that everybody have some technical training and background. Even though not everybody is coding but even our deals team and our designers all have GitHub accounts and they go into the code base.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.