David Filo Quotes

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

In order for the Bureau to change we have to open ourselves to suggestions

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The societies that embrace openness will be those that compete and succeed effectively.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.

The people of California really like innovation.

I just want to innovate.

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

We should have more invention.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.