When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
Like everyone else, I read newspapers and 'New Scientist' and try to put my finger on the trends which we can just see emerging now that are accelerating and might take off.
Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.
It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
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 is everything that doesn’t work yet.
Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.
Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet
The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.
Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.
From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.
Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.
When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.
Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn't get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can't imagine it would be much faster for VR.
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
As I look forward in things like the Internet of Things, I am sure we will talk about video. There is a lot of disruption going on and a lot of new products being brought to market, products like Go90.
It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.
