Quotes About Innovators

The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

Democratization of commerce is based on everyone having the right to exercise their roles as micro consumers, micro producers, micro entrepreneurs, micro investors, and micro innovators. Access to information removes the first impediment to building this brave, new world. Information asymmetry has always been at the heart of poverty.

And if the novel [ The Education of Cyrus ] remains dull by modern standards, we have to remind ourselves Xenophon didn't set out to write a "novel" — there was no such thing yet in his culture — but was feeling his way to a new form somewhere between factual history and fanciful epic. Our hat is always off to innovators.

The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilisation.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called Stuxnet 'a stone thrown by people who live in a glass house'.

Innovation is always a product of individual innovators, a rare and dynamic breed not always appealing to the millions who depend on their creativity for their own comfort, health, and security.

As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

You always have to have new. You have to keep feeding the audience's appetite for new faces and new talent.

You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.

For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress.

Los innovadores de valor buscan ideas de éxito y saltos sustanciales en valor, sin que les importe demasiado cómo le va al sector.

The time and energy that innovators invested in new methods thus yielded a much higher social return than the meager private return they reaped.

Innovators have the visionary gift of looking ahead, the inventor's ability to create, and the entrepreneur's ability to sell. Above all, innovators have a burning desire to make their dreams into reality. They are not content to imagine the future; they want to create it.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.

Among more recent innovators was the Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov, whose novel Bend Sinister is trophied with delightful oddities like kwazinka ('a slit between the folding parts of a screen') and shchekotiki (which is 'half-tingle, half-tickle').6

Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.

There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.