Quotes about Innovation

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.

Most people will be primarily getting into autonomous vehicles if we look 20, 30 years out. If we mandate that autonomous vehicles have to be electric, then we will move people into electric vehicles.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Great work is always shunned at first.