Clayton Christensen Quotes

You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models.

I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

Our team finds motivation in knowing that we're transforming the ticketing industry, this notion that we're bringing democratization to an industry and disrupting it using technology.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

We are addressing duplication and complexity. At the same time, we are investing more in research and development, speeding up the time to market of new innovations, and expanding our sales force in markets where growth is to be found, like Turkey, Russia, the Mideast, China, and southeast Asia.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.

I try to make things that are not elitist.

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.

To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

I want our legal system to work better. I want it to be streamlined, I want it to be clearer. I don’t think you have to — shouldn’t have to hire a lawyer to figure out how to get into this country legally.

Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.