Jan Chipchase Quotes

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.

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.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

Society has come to expect that American science and engineering will contribute to the general economic and social welfare.

Congress commissioned the first telegraph line, the railroads, the Internet. The role of the government in developing new technology is often misunderstood.

The ... progress of improvement and discovery ought not to be overlooked. ... Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power. ... We are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared.

With 5% of the world’s population, the United States employs about a third of all the research and development workers in the world.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

Those of us concerned with developing new technology should consider ourselves to have a major undertaking to try to meet the expanding needs of the increasing number of people in the world with its finite resources and environments constraints.

After World War II, the U. S. Government made massive investments in the nascent field of computer science, both in research and in industry. In the 1950s it bought almost 50 percent of all semiconductors that were produced, thus driving down their costs until the private sector could afford to buy them.

In the coming years, breakthroughs in transparency will come from Silicon Valley rather than Geneva.