Quotes About Innovation

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in what we've accomplished engineering-wise but what we've accomplished on this international scale, because anybody will tell you that half the challenge is making it all work.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.

Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.

Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods.

A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.

We need to pass measures that protect consumers' private information while also encouraging new technological innovations.

People go out; they take risk; they find a way to develop resources that were previously not accessible, not available because of technological reasons.

Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share of jobs in the economy.

I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.