Innovation Balance Quotes

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.

I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

We're always trying to stay on the cutting edge but also, at the same time, do something that's real. We're never going to do something that's not us.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.