Innovation Quotes
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Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.
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This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.
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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
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I believe Innovation is more likely to emerge from a culture of encouragement.
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In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
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I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.
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Process innovation is different from product innovation. It's about how do you create a new product or develop a new product or manufacture a new product, but not a new product itself?
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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
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Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."
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Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.
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Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone
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The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
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Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
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Innovation is hard to schedule.
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I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.
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In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
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On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.
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During the last two centuries, there have been many deflations throughout the world. Almost all of them have been good ones precipitated by technological innovation, rising productivity, global capital flows, and sustained economic growth. If farm mechanization cuts the price of wheat, you get a rising living standard. This is good.
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This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
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For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.
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You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.
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Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
