Sarah Lacy Quotes

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

Americans tend to believe that every problem has some technical solution.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

That's what we're focusing on at Not Impossible Labs, looking at problems or needs that can be solved through hacking, modding, programming, whatever, so it helps one person first but has the potential to help many others.

Thinking differently is my strength.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

Leadership requires that we challenge the conventional wisdom.

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.

The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.