Quotes About Innovation

Sure," she mumbled. "Shoving the bulk of your machinery into higher dimensions is a real space-saver. Everyone knows that.

The progress of your technology has been exponential. And the exponent itself has been growing.

Einstein: His Life and Universe,

The Rational Optimist: How

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

In addition, teachers would have to learn to deal with students who no longer sat in rows, eyes ahead and pencils at the ready. They would have to be up on the latest uses of technology and computers, because their students would not be using textbooks. Classrooms would be brimming with computers, and the teachers would have to know how to use them.

The first 350 families agree to participate on the panel would each receive a Tandy personal computer, with 133 MHz Intel Pentium processor; a Hewlett-Packard combination printer, fax, and copier; the most advanced Nokia cellular phone; and an AT&T telephone that was not yet on the market and that offered so many features the company called it a "personal information center.

The enemy is conventional language; the antidote is poetry and mild intoxicants.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Being guided by your own thoughts and abilities, living out there on the high wire and being rewarded for it: That was the Chicago way. Nothing else counted. If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated.

Simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking.

It's as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

The industrialist's dream was to replace them entirely—with machines.

The screen is encroaching on the eye, from TVs to computer monitors to phone screens to smart watches to VR goggles to tiny LEDs that project images onto the retina to neural implants that communicate directly with the optic nerve.

On an innovation landscape now characterized by flow, capital competes for vehicles in which to invest. Accordingly, interest rates plummet and banks threaten insolvency.

A few employees are fine while a company is getting going, but eventually all of those skills need to be automated in order for the company to "scale" infinitely. This is why Facebook wants AIs or—at worst—its users to monitor and tag offensive posts instead of paid human employees.

But now, digital technology was to return the Nasdaq to its former glory and beyond.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

It's time to shift our thinking from the old model of teaching to a new model of learning.