Jeremy Stoppelman Quotes

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

I'm really focused on looking at where the industry is headed and how the world is evolving. Toys really need to adapt to this new era.

Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred.

In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

In the years that I've been in this business, a lot of things have changed in a major way. In all aspects.

I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.

What's important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how we connect these complex systems.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

Innovation is critical to the heartbeat of any successful corporation in the industrialized world.

I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.

Dating back at least as far as the Luddites of early 19th-century Britain, new technologies cause fear about the inevitable changes they bring.

The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to existing markets, particularly to content/copyright owners who sell through well-established distribution channels.

History has shown that time and market forces provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology is a video recorder, a personal computer, an MP3 player, or now the Net.