Innovation Effect Quotes

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of pure malevolence no doubt -- changed the history of the world by reinventing man.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

We change our tools and then our tools change us.

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.