Quotes About Innovation

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

I got my first patent in 1979 before I left the Air Force. I called it the Digital Distance Measuring Instrument. It used ones and zeros and dots and dashes and a magnifying lens to read binary-encoded information from a scale that was photographically reduced. It used the same kind of technology that's used in CDs and DVDs.

Technology is impacting everything we do on a daily basis.

A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government.

You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

I am a woman, and I am proud to say that I work in technology. But I also recognise that the combination of those two facts puts me in the minority.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

It's a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

India is keen to leverage Italian technology and investment for growth and development.

Technology's always taken jobs out of the system, and what you hope is that technology's going to put those jobs back in, too. That's what we call productivity.

What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

It's easier to record because technology is advanced. That's why there is a spurt in the number of new singers.

When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.

There's absolutely no bubble in technology.

The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.

I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.