Quotes About Innovation

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Every new idea in any field needs protection.

You have to think about ways of improving the helmet all the time, balancing protection with being able to move and see the ball.

When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.

In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.

I'm an advocate for alternative proteins, and I believe we can eat many.

Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.

I am excited to join the Bancor advisory board and provide guidance and insight to such an innovative team and protocol.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.

I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.