Quotes About Progress

During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go directly from his tongue to wikiquotes, shot back a line that was to become PARC's creed: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."60

Apple's innovations were more than skin-deep. Since 1994 it had been using a microprocessor, called the PowerPC, that was

The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father's generation. "Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto shop." McCollum

They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That's what I've always tried to do—keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

Si Von Neumann y su equipo hubieran seguido liderando las innovaciones y las hubiesen hecho de dominio público, ¿habría conducido ese modelo de desarrollo de código abierto a un progreso más rápido de los ordenadores?

Innovation happens in stages.

It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. We believe that it's technology married with the humanities that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation.

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The Lisa was conceived as a $2,000 machine based on a sixteen-bit microprocessor, rather than

For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.

The computer will never be as important to society as the copier."73

the importance of spawning new

As Jobs walked the floor of the Personal Computer Festival, he came to the realization that Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop had been right: Personal computers

markets rather than merely chasing old ones.

Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The

the inventors of the transistor at Bell Labs in New Jersey, moved out to Mountain View and, in 1956, started a company to build transistors using silicon rather than the more expensive germanium that was then commonly used. But

unexpected results drove new theories.

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

Deje las cosas para más adelante.

finally decided on Integrated Electronics Corp. That wasn't very thrilling, either, but it had the virtue that it could be abridged—as Intel.