Innovation Quotes

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Boston is known for its innovation.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.