Lou Dobbs Quotes

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

Technology is such a big part of our lives. It makes everything easier. It doesn't make sense to fight against it. We need to set limits and learn how to use it so that we can go to places that we have never been to before.

For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things - like going to the moon - to survive.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.