John Sculley Quotes

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

Complexity and innovation are not always good things.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

This is the age of disruption.

Netflix completely shook up the world.

The blockchain is going to change everything more than the Internet has.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

I think television is always changing. It's always shifting.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Technology changes nothing.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.