innovation quotes

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I’m an inventor.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

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.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.