Quotes About Innovation

Government, in many ways, is absolutely going to, if not already has, become irrelevant. It's not going to be in control anymore with the technologies that are coming down the pipe.

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it's getting ready to disrupt everything.

I have talked about the 'fractal organization'. Those smaller pieces should innovate and lead the rest of the organization. There will be parts that will be thinking about technologies of the future, and you need to nourish them.

So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.

I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.

When private sector, government, social, and philanthropic leaders apply innovative partnerships and technologies to address social challenges and build sustainable communities, the impact is multiplied.

We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.

Solar will outcompete other technologies.

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.

Nasdaq is investing in the technologies, talent, and capabilities that solve the complex challenges our clients face.

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

People get comfortable with technologies.

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.