Ralph H. Baer Quotes

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

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

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.