Quotes about Innovation

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

We could perform in space or be the first band to play moon, but we want to be the first 'Star Wars' band.

I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

I don't hear anyone out there that sounds like us. They can try but it's in the sonics, the whole carcass of the song. The way it attacks you is so well engineered. No one else can do that. They don't have the ability to make that noise.