Innovation Drivers Quotes

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.

Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.

One of the main reasons that we have made so much progress in so many technological areas in recent years is that many people care about those areas.

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.

Developers, developers, developers...

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

I dream of a Digital India where 1.2 billion Connected Indians drive Innovation.

I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.

Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government.

New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society.