Quotes about Innovation

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. Within a few years we have witnessed the phenomenon of a southeastward migration, in the settlement of Australia; but this affects us as a retrograde movement, and, judging from the moral and physical character of the first generation of Australians, has not yet proved a successful experiment.

Genius is full of trash.

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.