Innovation Quotes

"For us, the most important thing we can do is raise people up—that is, either by giving the ability to do things they could not otherwise do, allow them to create things they couldn’t otherwise create. It’s about giving them tools; it is about empowering people" "Ideas are worthless without the execution; execution is pointless without the ideas." "The creative person, by necessity, must come to be at odds with the majority" "Every industry and company that is not a software company will be disrupted by a software company." "Innovation accelerates and compounds, so we see richer ideas per unit of time." "Startups are inherently chaotic" "You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down" "Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurially" "Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on" "Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services" "The networked age is ultimately about finding, developing, and leveraging talent" "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." "Every generation needs a new revolution" "A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about" "There's no formula or algorithm for innovation. You have to look for inspiration from a wide variety of places." "The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable." "I think the idea of art kills creativity." "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." "There is no great genius without some touch of madness" "You get paid for being right first, and to be first is to be lonely"